So far it has not received much media attention, being drowned out by the various scandals swirling around the Obama administration, but in May the California Assembly passed a bill, AB-460, requiring insurance companies to...
Read MoreFrom May 30 to June 2, the College Theology Society gathered on the campus of Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska for its fifty-ninth annual convention. I first presented a paper at a CTS convention back in 2003 and, with...
Read MoreIn the days leading up to the papal conclave which just concluded, I became a bit dismayed by the intense, wall to wall media coverage of the event because of two of the forces driving this coverage. The first is our celebrity-...
Read MoreIn recent months, the Catholic activist Dorothy Day has received ample praise in both the Catholic and secular press. Of course, the reason is that last November, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops endorsed the...
Read MoreEarlier today, Algerian special forces raided a natural gas complex near In Aménas, Algeria where members of an al Qaeda-affiliated Islamist group had been holding hostage a group of workers from several countries. Tragically,...
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