Kevin Clarke

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

U S cities have experienced a discernible decline in the number of African Americans who call them home and leading the way out have been African American parents with small children Decades ago the Great Migration out of the poverty and discrimination they experienced in the U S south brought hi

Thankless task dept nbsp Mark Shea and the Anchoress try to make sense out of the Corapi fiasco Good luck with that The bizarre events swirling around Father Corapi s spectacular fall from grace inspired despair and soul searching among some self-righteous rants among others and all-out loonin

The Washington Theological Union is throwing in the towel In an announcement released yesterday WTU reported that it does not have the financial resources to be able to continue offering its academic services to the Church and the community beyond the 2012 – 2013 academic year hat-tip to Heidi