From Mirada Global Where Vargas Llosa truly shows us his streak as a writer and especially an essayist is in his study of his much admired Flaubert through Madame Bovary with a beautiful title The Perpetual Orgy Beyond the distance in years 115 years Vargas Llosa considered Flaubert as the

Hear more from blogger Matt Malone S J in this special election podcast Matt s key insight Don t mistake mood for mandate Tim Reidy nbsp

This week we have been featuring videos on our home page from the Truth Commission on Conscience in War held in March in Riverside Church here in New York The Truth Commission was set up to provide greater protection for moral conscience in war for those in military service At the March event se

Yesterday was the official pub date for Fr Ray Schroth s new biography of Robert F Drinan S J --the controversial Jesuit priest and congressmen--and NCR has already weighed in with a positive review As the review notes the most intriguing question raised by the book is whether Drinan who serve

A reflection from Barnabite priest Umberto Palma Orellana The miners have become a good brand a brand everybody wants to register for their own benefit and exploitation Their lives those too human existences haven rsquo t mattered before they don rsquo t now and won rsquo t in the future eith

I don t usually link to articles that are not available online but these two pieces from The New York Review of Books are very much worthwhile even if you have to hoof it to the library The first is a review of Fintan O Toole s Ship of Fools How Stupidity and Corruption Sank the Celtic Tiger wh

We hope that regular readers of our blog also check out our other online features including this podcast discussion of Seamus Heaney s new collection of poems Human Chain with Angela O Donnell of Fordham University Also worthwhile Fr Ray Schroth s video commentary on the horrific anti-gay viol

Culture editor James Martin S J visited Milwaukee recently for the Archdiocese s annual Pallium Lecture sponsored by Archbishop Jerome Listecki While there he spoke with the NPR nbsp show Lake Effect on Ignatian spirituality Jesuit life and the role of humor in the church Listen here nb

Here our latest offering from Mirada Global a reflection on the beauty of scientific equations from Gabriel Ferraro This symmetry of the equations expresses something very deep about the nature of electricity and magnetism In a way each one of these phenomenon is the consequence of the other

From our friends at CARA an analysis of Catholic attitudes on transubstantiantion The Pew Forum on Religion amp Public Life rsquo s recent U S Religious Knowledge Survey has unearthed evidence of an identity crisis among American Catholics ldquo More than four-in-ten Catholics in the United S