Antiterrorism efforts have improved since the lack of coordination after Sept. 11.
Kevin Clarke
Kevin Clarke is America’s chief correspondent and the author of Oscar Romero: Love Must Win Out (Liturgical Press).
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Talking About Terror
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross is a visiting research fellow at the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism mdash The Hague and a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies in Washington D C He responded by e-mail to a few questions in the aftermath of the apprehension of the second su
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Are Kermit Gosnell’s Crimes Too Horrible to Write About?
The idea is that when the public is informed, violations like this are far less likely to be repeated.
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Pope Francis ‘Likes’ Vatican II
During the homily of yesterday 39 s mass dedicated to Benedict XVI 16th who turned 86 Pope Francis offered a happily unnuanced endorsement of the ambitions of Vatican II noted efforts to quot turn the clock back quot and suggested the church needed to do more to complete quot everything the H
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The Gosnell Horror
Here 39 s Kirsten Powers at USA Today wading through the incomprehensible horror show that is the Kermit Gosnell story in Philadelphia and wondering why there is quot precious little coverage of the case that should be on every news show and front page quot It 39 s easy to understand why any hu
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The Downloadable Wasteland
Will television schedules mean much in the future, when most content is captured on DVRs?
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A Soldier Who Never Fired a Gun: Father Kapaun’s Uncommon Valor
In the excerpt below from the White House transcript of the posthumous presentation of the medal of honor to Father Emil Kapaun President Obama recounts the remarkable story of the chaplain 39 s valor before during and after his capture by Chinese forces in North Korea quot I can 39 t imagine
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Autism Rates Jump Again or do they? Does it matter?
Would a little healthy hysteria be welcome now as the latest report from the CDC indicates again another possible increase in autism in America The latest CDC survey of parent-reported ASD diagnoses shows an increase from 1 in 86 children aged 6 to 17 reported in 2007 to 1 in 50 in 2011 In this
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Silence and Service: Pope Francis Captivates Catholics Worldwide
Cardinal Francis has become the first pope in 600 years to receive his predecessor’s blessing.
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Pope Francis: A conservative who sides with the poor
Although somewhat unexpected the election of Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio to succeed Benedict XVI has the air of a safe compromise decision At age 76 he does not have the physical vibrancy and personal dynamism that a younger man might have brought to Rome Vatican watchers did not consider Be