About 10% of women of child-bearing years, that is 6.1 million women in the U.S., suffer from infertility (the inability to get pregnant after 1 year of trying or after six months of trying for those 35 or older). For many, an...
Read MoreReflections on the readings for May 29, 2011 (Sixth Sunday of Easter) So what’s the big deal about the Holy Spirit? In this week’s first reading, we see Peter and John being sent to Samaria so that the people there,...
Read MoreReflections for May 22, 2011 We are good at labels: conservative versus liberal, red state versus blue state, pro-life versus pro-choice. These labels are often reductive and lacking nuance, and even more often, such labels...
Read MoreFederal prosecutors have issued a subpoena to my very own Boston College, ordering the school to turn over the tapes of two interviews from two former soldiers of the Provisional Irish Republican Army, one of whom is still...
Read More. . . Or just skeptical of the justice of the criminal justice system? Peter Moskos’ new book In Defense of Flogging appears to be less about flogging and more about the failure of the contemporary prison system. My...
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