Fr. George W. Rutler
The recent pardon of the late world heavy weight champion Jack Johnson
by our president was a gracious act long overdue. A previous motion had
passed the House but died in the Senate in 2008. Johnson’s racially
motivated conviction for violating the Mann Act after he had married a
white woman resulted in his beginning […]
Dusty Gates
I was saddened by news of the death of Anthony Bourdain, reported as an
apparent suicide. While I’m always surprised and saddened by news that a
person has opted out of life, unfortunately our collective shock has
perhaps been lessened by other high profile suicides among pop stars,
and by our intuitive recognition that a […]
Jane Clark Scharl
The French filmmaker and writer Marcel Pagnol died in 1974 at the age of
79 in Paris, having lived through one of the most morally destabilizing
periods in history. He watched as two world wars devastated his
country; he witnessed the permanent loss of the rural way of life in
France through industrialization; he saw […]
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