American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
RJN: 5.24.06 So what’s your church?…
So what’s your church? I don’t know what easy answer Mark Kinzer has in response to that…
RJN: 5.10.06 Alan Wolfe is…
Alan Wolfe is Boston College’s man on religion and public life. In Sunday’s New York Times Book…
JB: 5.08.06 For decades….
For decades, one of the best ways to sell a movie was to say that it was…
RJN: 5.2.06 Last week…
Last week, all week, was Vienna. Which, for readers of this site, had the advantage of a…
Moral Stem Cells
The desire of the scientific community for embryonic stem cells is not diminishing. Indeed, it is increasing,…
The Diplomacy of Religious Freedom
Diplomacy may be the art of letting someone else have your way, but, these days, disagreements over…
Pope Benedict on Love and Justice
Benedict’s first encyclical, Deus Caritas Est—“God Is Love”—is dated the Feast of the Nativity but was not…
Suing the Church
Last summer, attorneys in Colorado filed the first sex-abuse lawsuits against the archdiocese of Denver since the…
Sacred Spaces & Other Places
A Sense pf the Sacred: Theological Foundations of Christian Architecture and Artby R. Kevin SeasoltzContinuum, 394 pages,…
Theology as Knowledge
James R. Stoner, Jr. Who stripped the public square and left it naked? That puts the matter…
Rejection Note for Paradise Regained
Loved that first book”it’s got no equal” but, Johnny, we don’t love your sequel. If you would…
JB: 4.28.06 It is death by philosophy…
It is death by philosophy, it is murder by decree, and the curiously named “freedom to die”…
RJN: 4.20.06 Roger Cardinal Mahony…
Roger Cardinal Mahony of Los Angeles has been both garnering praise and taking a drubbing for his…
JB: 4.19.06 If you look over in the…
If you look over in the left-hand column of this web page, you’ll find a link for…
RJN: 4.14.06 GOOD FRIDAY…
GOOD FRIDAY 2006 “Through Mary he received his humanity, and in receiving his humanity received humanity itself.…
