American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
RJN: 4.12.06 Moving to less controversial topics…
Moving to less controversial topics, George Will had a thoughtful column Sunday before last on new efforts…
RJN: 4.10.06 When these holy days…
When these holy days roll around, segments of the media, as reliably as clockwork, roll out the…
JB: 3.4.06 On Saturday, a banquet…
On Saturday, a banquet was held in Washington, D.C., to mark the establishment of a new center…
In Conformity to Christ
On November 29, 2005, the Congregation for Catholic Education in Rome released an instruction concerning the admission…
Darwin in Dover, PA
While Christoph Cardinal Schönborn and Professor Stephen Barr were arguing over questions of evolution and teleology in…
Broken Promises
“Never forget what happened here!” John Paul II demanded in 1993 when he visited Albania ” where,…
Iraq: Then & Now
Even as history continues to unfold—and explode—in ancient Mesopotamia, the Iraq War has already proven itself the…
Ancestral Tumulus
Daggers, broadswords, halberds, battle-axes, shields, helmets, scabbard parts and buckles, spearheads, manacles, necklaces, wine jars, war trumpets,…
RJN: 3.30.06 Two of the most influential…
Two of the most influential theologians of the last century, Karl Barth and Reinhold Niebuhr, shared the…
RJN: 3.31.06 Steven Waldman…
Steven Waldman is editor-in-chief of Beliefnet, and is working on a book on religion and the American…
JB: 3.28.06 So, protestors have filled…
So, protestors have filled the streets of France , once again. Cars burned, buildings occupied, politicians scuttling…
RJN: 3.24.06 This is a very old genre of…
This is a very old genre of humor. The darndest things that children say have, I suppose,…
JB: 3.8.06 Euthanasia has been making…
Euthanasia has been making a comeback in recent months, bubbling up again and again in little snippets…
The Civic University
Forty-five years ago John Courtney Murray, S.J., published his groundbreaking work We Hold These Truths, which he…
In Moral Labor
Near the end of Reproduction and Responsibility, the 2004 report of the President’s Council on Bioethics, comes…
