Politics

The right to life is an empty promise in a nation that venerates guns more than the peace and safety of the community.

The right to life is an empty promise in a nation that venerates guns more than the peace and safety of the community.

While Lent is traditionally about private sacrifice, with so much talk of religion in the public square, it seems like a good time to consider embracing some collective acts of atonement for the sorry state of human behavior.

Catholic institutions that truly believe in celebrating life need to be good models of welcome, hospitality and pastoral care for all of God's children, whether virtuous or wayward, righteous or confused.

Higher education is in trouble right now --- and it's not just because of the scandal at Penn State. The real trouble that higher education is in goes to the soul of our existence as institutions supposedly dedicated to the free search for truth.

The eruption of personal tensions among our local legislators, triggered at least in part by instances of ethically challenged behaviors, is an embarrassment for a city government that can't afford public ridicule.

After September 11, who could dare speak of the need to reinvigorate the War on Poverty, what with the War on Terror consuming most of our fiscal and emotional resources? A decade later, the region remains divided, unconscionably so.