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Is this the best we can do? John McCain's presidential campaign falters
We learned on Oct. 1 in a CNN report that yes, Sarah Palin can see Russia from Alaska. But only from a tiny island in the middle of the Bering Sea,...
National Catholic Reporter, 10/31/08 by Raymond A. Schroth · More from publication -
The life of a one-man peace machine
A PERSISTENT PEACE: ONE MAN'S STRUGGLE FOR A NONVIOLENT WORLD A PERSISTENT PEACE: ONE MAN'S STRUGGLE FOR A NONVIOLENT WORLD By John Dear, SJ...
National Catholic Reporter, 10/17/08 by Raymond A. Schroth · More from publication -
Batter the bod till it bleeds: mixed martial arts is a new form of the old sport of boxing
I didn't grow up thinking boxing was bad. I didn't grow up thinking boxing was bad. As a sergeant in World War I, my father was known as a...
National Catholic Reporter, 09/05/08 by Raymond A. Schroth · More from publication -
A journalist on the frontlines: for those wanting to understand the modern Mideast, Robert Fisk is a must-read
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] It is Lebanon, 1996. The advancing Israelis have ordered villagers to flee their homes. Abbas...
National Catholic Reporter, 07/11/08 by Raymond A. Schroth · More from publication -
The need to beat somebody up: PBS offers an in-depth look at 'Bush's War'
In "Duck Soup," the Marx Brothers' satire on the irrationality of war, Rufus T. Firefly (Groucho), dictator of the republic of Freedonia,...
National Catholic Reporter, 03/21/08 by Raymond A. Schroth · More from publication -
'The Wire' depicts a community on the brink
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The story of HBO's sensation "The Wire"--not extremely popular but acclaimed by the media as "The...
National Catholic Reporter, 03/07/08 by Raymond A. Schroth · More from publication -
A world without books: the obsolescence of reading is a looming peril
In a recent New Yorker cartoon a young man sits alone at his coffee shop table and types into his laptop, "It was the best of Starbucks. It was the...
National Catholic Reporter, 01/25/08 by Raymond A. Schroth · More from publication -
Jesuits plan for life post-Kolvenbach
There's a story in the 1892 Jesuit review Woodstock Letters where an older Jesuit tells a younger man who is about to start teaching that the...
National Catholic Reporter, 12/28/07 by Raymond A. Schroth · More from publication -
The future face of television news
The television screen focuses on a storefront marked "Hillary" as a SWAT team, poised for action, huddles a few yards away. A flock of birds swoops...
National Catholic Reporter, 12/21/07 by Raymond A. Schroth · More from publication -
Leaders who've 'left the ground': the media monitor a run-up to possible war with Iran
Many remember the final minutes of Stanley Kubrick's film "Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb." Many remember...
National Catholic Reporter, 12/07/07 by Raymond A. Schroth · More from publication
