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We Interrupt this Culture War to Report …
A church burns in India I don’t know if Mitt Romney really believes that 47 percent of all Americans will never have a sense of personal responsibility, will never “care for their lives.” How can...
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Knights and Death Mongers: Civility Part 1
From an ad sponsored by the Knights of Columbus Civility—the word, if not the social attribute—has crept back into the political repertory. In the remembrances of George McGovern this week, headline...
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A Word About the Weather
As I write, I’m also packing my toothbrush and notebooks for a conference on Catholic social teaching and climate change, beginning tomorrow at Catholic University in Washington. The climate part needs...
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Two Bishops, and the World’s First Climate Change Refugees
A message from the Catholic Climate Covenant At a reception before the start of a Catholic conference on climate change earlier this month in Washington, I asked Bishop Donald Kettler of Fairbanks,...
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Read Thy Enemy
Ross Douth I flipped through some of the expected commentary about what to read in the New Year, but one column that nudged me was Ross Douthat’s in the Times, “How to Read in 2013.” The conservative...
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When MLK was Old
King at Boston University A new study published in Science magazine invites a fresh take on Bob Dylan’s refrain, “Ah, but I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now.” The study of 19,000...
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The God Who Could Not
Last week, NPR’s Morning Edition presented a thoughtful, in-depth series titled “Losing Our Religion.” Reporters tracked down an interesting array of people who had turned away from organized religion,...
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Resembling Religion
The secular movement: Here to stay. But what will it become? In the continuing saga of the seculars in 21st century America, one question keeps occurring to me: Whose particular path might we be...
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Sequestering the Moral Questions
On the eve of sequestration—the indiscriminate federal budget cuts—various interests are aiming to capture the moral high ground of the debate over government spending. Which raises the question: What...
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Rich Major, Poor Major
Petroleum engineers: They shall inherit the earth. Researchers at Georgetown made news this week with listings of the college majors that lead to both the plumpest and leanest paychecks. Topping the...
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