In All Things

David Gibson over at Politics Daily has a great piece on the uproar over the newly announced Mother Teresa stamp nbsp Seems that some are objecting to her smiling visage gracing our letters and postcards nbsp And they re objecting for good reason nbsp The U S Postal Service s list of requ

Fred Hiatt has an essay in this morning rsquo s Washington Post taking Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to task for his turn-around on the bipartisan Conrad-Gregg proposal to establish a bipartisan commission to recommend structural changes to the federal budget which like the Base Realignmen

Pope Benedict XVI has given the first official Vatican confirmation that he will be visiting the UK in September to beatify Cardinal Newman The full text of his address to the English and Welsh bishops at the conclusion of their ad limina visit is here He doesn t give any further details nor even

The Economist s brilliant cover of a haloed Steve Jobs carrying his new iPad made me think that — pace the Vatican spokesman s nbsp warnings about obsessing with cyberspace nbsp – Apple s new gizmo could well transform church life Christians already use their smartphones and handhelds to read th

Tony Blair who gave evidence today to an enquiry in London set up to draw lessons from the Iraq disaster has disappointed many people by refusing to express regret about his decision to go to war Unrepentant defiant nbsp righteous are some of the inevitable headline words but they stri

In October of last year I made a pilgrimage of sorts to Cincinnati Ohio a city that boasts great chili serves great Graeter rsquo s to be specific ice cream and most importantly is home to very warm people nbsp Several years ago I had spent a marvelous summer in nearby Milford Ohio at

The President sent a mixed signal about the future of health care reform in his State of the Union address His words were clear Don t walk away from reform nbsp Not now nbsp Not when we are so close nbsp Let us find a way to come together and finish the job for the American people nbsp Let

A month away from the Vatican report on the future of the Legionaries of Christ its head has written to its members asking for an end to damaging debates over the Congregation s future According to the Peru-based ACI Prensa Fr Alvaro Corcuera has sent a letter to Legionaries to ask for charity an

President Barack Obama knows how to deliver a speech about as well as anyone since Franklin Delano Roosevelt And like Roosevelt President Obama set out a vision for the coming year that focused on the economy and specifically on the way the government can lay the groundwork for economic growth