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As President Obama confirmed today a final drawdown of U S troops from Iraq by Christmas Tucson Bishop Gerald Kicanis was himself returning from a brief pastoral tour of duty in Baghdad He shared his impressions with us and offers a poignant reminder that while the experience in Iraq may be comin

Here s more for my reality once again outpacing satire folder h t to David Gibson at dotcommonweal and The Lede The president s recent decision to commit 100 U S military advisors to train Ugandan Central African Republic and Congolese troops so they can God willing finally put an end to th

The New York Times is reporting that Kansas City Bishop Robert Finn and the diocese he leads have been indicted by a county grand jury on a charge of failure to report suspected child abuse in the case of a priest who had been accused of taking lewd photographs of young girls nbsp The Times rep

I stumbled upon this Washington Post series of photos of a Colorado family being evicted H T to Greg Kandra s The Deacon s Bench and have not been able to stop thinking about this family and what they are going through a tragedy being replicated at thousands of sites around the country I don t k

Steve Jobs had a remarkable life An adopted child his biological sister incredibly is the novelist Mona Simpson college drop-out and Arab American he created perhaps the greatest comeback story in American corporate history Before he became a visionary whose fine taste and ruthless perfectio

A couple of CNS stories are worth reading today before we close out for the week In the first Tommaso Di Ruzza desk officer at the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace OK I m not sure what that means either I m picturing someone in a naval uniform attempts to dispel the continuing confus

The U S bishops appear to be weary of a consistent reactive posture in recent years to swift changes in the nation s political and cultural landscape Responding to what a U S C C B press release described the persisitent erosion of religious liberty the bishops announced the formation of a new

I suspect Father Jim Martin won t be writing about this guy anytime soon but in South Korea he is apparently held in high regard On October 26 1909 in Harbin northeastern China Thomas An Jung-geun assassinated Ito Hirobumi Japan rsquo s first prime minister and the first Japanese resident gen

While Congress began another round of government by brinkmanship and self-inflicted wound I stumbled upon a couple of maps of the United States today that offer a depressing update not on the nation s highway system perhaps on the American dream The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities digs a