Jim McDermott

Michael Kelly has an interesting piece in Cathnews com today comparing the recent sacking of Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to the current issues in church administration nbsp The sacking of a Prime Minister is just a more visible instance of something that happens every day on a less spect

As a statement of intention Make Poverty History is hard to argue with And it has proven over the course of years to be a rallying cry for people concerned about poverty in our world particularly in the developing world nbsp Yet the concrete goals being set by this popular catchphrase are har

It s not that uncommon in parliamentary politics to have a party leader replaced nbsp In fact Australia s Liberal Party has replaced its leader four times in the last three years nbsp Far less common is the replacement of a prime minister in this way nbsp In a remarkable turns of events toda

On this day 18 years ago Dan Quayle famously misspelled potato leading the 12-year-old child whom he corrected to later comment to David Letterman I know he s not an idiot but he needs to study more Do you have to go to college to be vice president Garrison Keillor has the story at the bot

P op Quiz for new parents how much will it cost you to raise your newborn nbsp According to a government study released last week and reported on Planet Money NPR rsquo s finance blog ldquo a middle-income two-parent family will spend 222 360 on average to raise a baby born in 2009 rdq

Eureka Street the Australian Jesuits online magazine has an disturbing article this week about the increase in violence towards women in bordertown Juarez Mexico as an indirect result of the North American Free Trade Agreement nbsp Since the North American Free Trade Agreement NAFTA was sig

Today in the category of ldquo Things I Wish My Fellow Midwesterners Wouldn rsquo t Say Because it Gives My Friends Too Much Ammunition rdquo Democratic Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson has reported that he has never used an ATM machine nbsp That rsquo s right nbsp In an article posted in the Oma

Andrew Hamilton S J offers an unflinching and intriguing take on the Catholic abuse crisis seen through the perspective of Easter this week in Eureka Street the Australian Jesuits online magazine The stories of sexual abuse throughout the Catholic world are not a distraction from Easter If w