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If our democracy is to survive and prosper, then our politics must become less important.

It might interest you to know that the Society of Jesus really began in a college dorm room in September 1529.

The choice of a Catholic education for our children today is the right choice at the right time, not merely for its material benefits, but for the progress of souls.

I belong to the last generation of college students who wrote their term papers on a typewriter—for one year. By the time I entered my sophomore year, I was writing on a word processor; by the time I graduated, I was staring into the blue-grey screen of a Macintosh.

In spite of our common progress, the country is still beset by the consequences of our original sin: lingering racial prejudice and outright bias, and deep distrust between Americans of different races and between large swaths of our citizenry and those charged with protecting and serving them.

We did not hear much if anything about crucial questions for Catholic voters.

One bomb had exploded in Manhattan; perhaps there was a second. Some injuries, no fatalities. Within 10 minutes or so, most of the customers were back where they started: enjoying the evening, almost as if nothing had happened.

Deconstructionists, those intellectuals who make it their job to ask critical questions about our long-cherished collective stories, like to ask, among other things, who or what cause is best served by a given narrative. They might ask, for example, whose interests are served by a story that tells o

The major-party presidential nominees have dramatically different visions for this country.