In All Things

If this is the end of the Anglican Communion I don rsquo t think anybody has told most of the people here rdquo was the Archbishop of Canterbury rsquo s recent summary of the difference between the way the world views the Lambeth Conference and the way those taking part see it He made the remar

Today is a great day to be alive This morning rsquo s newspaper greeted me with the news that Radovan Karadzic the leader of the Bosnian Serbs who incited the war in Bosnia in the early 1990s has been arrested and will be brought to the Hague to face trial for war crimes Justice has moved slowly

The government is reporting a huge uptick in the number of arrests in their efforts to crack down on illegal immigration In 2004 there were only 845 arrests In 2007 there were 4 940 arrests Only 8 million more to go nbsp This is a farce except for the families who are arbitrarily chosen to

The Guardian has obtained a letter by Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone the Vatican rsquo s secretary of state addressed to the delegates attending the Lambeth conference of 650 Anglican bishops worldwide There rsquo s not much surprising in it ndash ldquo New issues that have arisen in our relationsh

An alarming ndash because wholly plausible ndash article in the British science journal Nature nbsp looks ahead to the future of human reproduction As they might say on the starship Enterprise it rsquo s fertility Jim but not as we know it Thirty years since the birth of the world rsquo s f

America will shortly be publishing a brief review of mine of The Duty of Delight nbsp the dazzling new collection of Dorothy Day s diaries but you might want to check out this new piece in The Tablet for a fuller treatment nbsp The book is simply stunning nbsp And as I mention in The Table

Check out TNR today for America blogger Michael Sean Winter s take on the Catholic vote and how it may hurt or help nbsp Barack Obama Barack Obama has a Catholic problem While Catholics constitute only 23 percent of the nation s population their numbers are higher in such critical states a

Of all the reasons to resent the tortured outcome to the 2000 election mess in Florida with its hanging chads strong-arm politics and less than convincing Supreme Court decision the absence of presidential leadership on environmental issues is one of the biggies This morning rsquo s Washington Po

My old boss the Archbishop of Westminster will not unusually be leading the annual diocesan pilgrimage to Lourdes which begins Sunday This in spite of it being the 150th anniversary of the apparitions and Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O rsquo Connor rsquo s last Lourdes pilgrimage as Archbishop of We

nbsp Here I am in Los Angeles about to start a retreat when I pick up today rsquo s The Los Angeles Times carrying stories about mortgage-bank woes gay weddings forest fires and the like nbsp Buried in the Arts section is a thumbnail review of the new documentary about Roman Polanski ldq