Last night I was a panelist in a forum on race gender and religion at the Graduate School of Religion and Religious Education at Fordham University One question that was raised in light of the present election is What is a real American My response was that such a question is one that

Yesterday I walked under high bright blue sky leaves slipping away from green into pre-death red flares in October chill across the Fordham campus on my way to the New York Botanical Garden The path from my office to the gate leads by Fordham Preparatory School and my first time ever walking b

Today rsquo s New York Times contains a story about the Community Synagogue in NYC east 6th Street and its hiring of a Lubavitcher rabbi Simon Jacobson to attract the spiritually curious and thus help save an aging congregation Part of the theological provocation of the story is that what man

The death of David Foster Wallace who apparently took his own life last week is a permanent and perhaps underappreciated deep loss for theology in general and Catholic theology in particular As the commentary about his life and work over the last several days has begun to spell out Wallace s

Mr George Sokich 1940-2008 was the landlord of my apartment building for whom a memorial mass was held nbsp yesterday at Sacred Heart Parish in the village of Dobbs Ferry New York George died while visiting his native Croatia and left behind a wife and three sons and their families as well a

There have been so few consistently beautifully transporting spiritual exercises undergone in my life as the ones occasioned by the growing up of our daughter She is three years old and was in the car with me recently when I played Journey s 1978 Infinity album She is usually entertained by t

This coming week I make the transition to another Jesuit university I taught at Boston College from 2001-2004 then moved to Santa Clara University where I have taught for the last four years Now I am honored to be taking a position in the Graduate School of Religion and Religious Education at Fo

Here at the annual convention of the Catholic Theological Society of America this weekend the theme has been Generations For me it has been an exhilarating weekend of hearing much theology renewing many friendships and again allowing gratitude for my colleagues and our shared vocation to make

The controversy over Rev Wright s and Fr Pfleger s remarks teach one overriding lesson not that zealous preaching is bad not that outdated models of dealing with race in America are unhelpfully being invoked not that a sermon can serve as a seismograph for Christian patriotism The lesson i

A wonderful day has been passed in the company of my wife s and therefore my extended family and friends at a bar mitzvah celebration in Brooklyn A few notes from the day I was nearly stricken by a mysterium tremendum et fascinans when the bimah became study-desk as the young man of t