Fr Jim Martin author of Searching for God at Ground Zero recently returned to the site of the September 11 attacks nbsp

A very disturbing article from the upcoming issue of the New York Times magazine As Jenny lay on the obstetrician rsquo s examination table she was grateful that the ultrasound tech had turned off the overhead screen She didn rsquo t want to see the two shadows floating inside her Since making h

Just posted to our Web site Margot Patterson on the threat of sectarian conflict in Syria With protesters calling for the downfall of the Assad regime religious minorities are nervous of what will follow should the regime fall mdash and what kind of treatment they will receive in the inter

From the Jesuit magazine Streven via Mirada Global Over recent decades it has become clear that women play important roles in the use and management of natural resources They are usually the ones responsible for the provision of water and biomass energy for the household It seems logical that the

Last month our editor Fr Drew Christiansen traveled to Lambeth Palace to take part in a conference sponsored by the archbishops of Canterbury and Westminster aimed at supporting the Christian community in the Holy Land You can read our report on the conference here Now Religion and Ethics newsl

An open letter from Catholic University president John Garvey The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act authorizes the Department of Health and Human Services to draw up new lists of ldquo preventive services for women rdquo that must be included in private health plans Last week the Instit

While everyone s attention is focused on the debt ceiling debate another controversial matter may be overlooked Over at NCR Steve Schneck of Catholic University lays out the details of a new set of health care regulations due to be released next week On Aug 1 Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is s

Sad news from Washington D C Archbishop Sambi was the Vatican s ambassador to the United States and a friend of the magazine Archbishop Pietro Sambi the papal ambassador to the United States since 2005 died Wednesday night apparently from complications related to lung surgery according to Vati

Like many of our readers I suspect I turn immediately to the letters page when I open up a magazine or newspaper Two recent letters on two different articles stood out this week and I think they re worth highlighting here The first is in response to Bill Keller s review of Absolute Monarchs A

From Envio magazine via Mirada Global In the morning of the 15th of May 1984 young Carlos Cuevas Molina was riding his motorbike to the historical center of Guatemala City when he was intercepted by two cars driving against the traffic Witnesses who recorded the license plates numbers saw how his