Kevin Clarke

The dog days of summer are being accompanied by howls of pain today from investors Decisively contradicting predictions that the end of the tragic-comic debt ceiling ldquo debate rdquo in Washington would lead to a market revival all major U S indexes indeed indexes around the world began a s

The Catholic Health Association has joined the discussion regarding new guidelines issued by the Department of Health and Human Services that require among other uncontroversial preventive service additions new health care plans after August 2012 to include FDA-approved contraception methods and c

Following up on recommendations issued last month by the Institute of Medicine the Department of Health and Human Services issued new guidelines today on mandatory care for women Beginning August 2012 new health insurance plans will be required to include women rsquo s preventive services such as

Rumors of a budget deal scattered about Washington today only to be denied by officials from the Obama administration and Speaker of the House John Boehner rsquo s office mdash just the latest development in the high-stakes ldquo don rsquo t call my bluff rdquo poker game that has transfixed the n

The USCCB is not happy with a new report from the Institute of Medicine Among other new health care services the report Clinical Preventive Services for Women Closing the Gap recommends that the Department of Health and Human Services HHS mandate coverage of surgical sterilization and all F

Cardinal Joseph Zen of Hong Kong interrupted his tour of North American Chinese communities long enough to speak this morning in New York about renewed tensions between Beijing and the Vatican This morning in Shantou city in southern Guangdong province China s state-sanctioned Catholic church ordai

I was wondering how long it would take this shoe to drop With all those Aussie editors scattered to the far corners of the Murdoch empire did anyone really think questionable practices to put it most kindly would be limited to the U K and a couple of royalty-mad tabloids CNN is reporting that t

Ireland s Cloyne Report was released today and it offers another spit-take inducing portrait of a hierarchy in dysfunction well after it could offer any reasonable excuse to be regarding sexual abuse committed by clerics In fact The context of this report differs significantly from the context

You may think Toledo Bishop Leonard Blair s decision to prohibit fundraising for breast cancer-fighting Komen Foundation to be foolish overkill or sound pastoral groundskeeping I don t know But I do find myself wondering what sort of bias is being nurtured over at the Toledo Blade when I stumbled

In what will surely be challenged as a questionable use of episcopal authority Toledo Bishop Leonard Blair has banned parishes and parochial schools from raising funds for the Susan G Komen Foundation citing concerns that the global anti-cancer giant may someday fund embryonic stem-cell research