Apparently a thoroughly devastating report on clerical sexual and physical abuse of Irish children and attempts to cover it up by the Irish hierarchy has been gruesome enough to draw an unprecedented response from Pope Benedict XVI Benedict met with senior Irish bishops and high-ranking members of

A Gaza-born resident of the West Bank and Bethlehem University student will not be allowed to complete her college education with just two-months to go before her graduation after the Israeli High Court of Justice accepted the Israeli Defense Forces decision to expel the young woman in October B

Mulling over the Senate s health care reform vote this morning and wondering if I would truly be forced to reject a social reform I have spent my entire adult life supporting I found some consolation and common good sense this morning e-thumbing via iPhone through the New York Times opinion secti

I will freely confess that what I don t know about college football is a lot but even as casual a follower as myself could not pass up a headline purporting to get at the heart of the dilemma of Notre Dame football s continuing decline Here I thought the blame could lie with ND s reluctance to flo

Making the move from the Great Plains to the gritty urbanity of New York

The era of blog-chair journalism only grows more pronounced nbsp The Washington Post essentially abandoned the rest of the nation this week closing bureaus in New York Chicago and Los Angeles to concentrate its declining resources closer to home Like a legion of other previously well-bureaued ci

A 4 700 word gauntlet has been thrown down before what I guess is perceived as America s liberal-secular triumphalism apparently made real to social conservative imagination by the Obama ascendancy via the Manhattan Declaration which issues a clarion call to Christians to adhere to their convi

The UN-sponsored World Summit on Food Security nbsp in Rome ended yesterday leaving many participants frustrated with the lack of progress on food security goals Few representatives from the developed world even bothered to attend the meeting The Nov 16-18 conference hosted by the U N Food and

Over at the site for the National Institute of Health Policy a program of the University of St Thomas former Minnesota Senator Dave Durenburger was not sharing the joy about both the Stupak Amendment and the historic House vote for health care reform on Nov 7 His concerns on both the bishops r

Oh the perils of running a news weekly We posted a story today that will appear in our next issue reviewing a diplomatic breakthrough in Honduras that seemed early this week to have ended four months of political crisis and social chaos in Central America s third-poorest nation Unfortunately the