We may still be on a biweekly schedule but we continue to update the Web site every week with new material Father Jim Martin has been keeping our blog readers up to speed on our many online culture offerings And yesterday we posted two new articles on our home page The first deals with the neura

Father Michael Place has just posted his response to our readers comments on his article A Time for Reform You can read them here by scrolling down to comment 15 A taste In reading the comments posted to date on my article I am impressed by how they seem to reprise some of what has been said i

Just a heads up that Father Michael Place will be taking readers rsquo questions this week about his article ldquo A Time for Reform How the Catholic Tradition Can Shape the Health Care Debate rdquo which appears in the current issue So you haven t already read the article and send in your c

Budd Schulberg the famed author of What Makes Sammy Run and the screenplay for On the Waterfront passed away yesterday at the age of 92 Jim Fisher professor of Catholic studies at Fordham University and author of the upcoming book On the Irish Waterfront offers an appreciation of Budd s li

In case you missed it on our home page here is Douglas W Kmiec s insightful essay on stem cells and church teaching Among the questions Professor Kmiec addresses is where the line of personhood should be drawn Scientists and ethicists challenge the pro-life office rsquo s proposition that the

If you haven t read Father John Jenkins remarks yet from Sunday s commencement at Notre Dame here they are along with a video of the event Tim Reidy

On the eve of his visit to Notre Dame Archbishop John R Quinn formerly of San Francisco has sent a letter to Barack Obama offering a different voice from the often strident outcries over his appearance America has received a copy of the letter which we reprint below April 24 2009The Presi

In case you haven t noticed it yet we ve just posted a Web-only article by Pepperdine law professor Douglas W Kmiec on the search for a new Supreme Court Justice In The Case for Empathy Kmiec addresses the conservative idealogues who see empathy as merely a code word for abortion rights or o

Just in time for Holy Week editorial director Karen Sue Smith has narrated an audio slide show of Holy Week 2008 at the Franciscan Renewal Center in Scottsdale Arizona Also known simply as The Casa the center is known for quality of its music liturgical dance and drama and the enthusiastic pa

Just in time for Holy Week editorial director Karen Sue Smith has narrated an audio slide show of Holy Week 2008 at the Franciscan Renewal Center in Scottsdale Arizona Also known simply as The Casa the center is known for quality of its music liturgical dance and drama and the enthusiastic pa