A graphic look at the 'Ground Zero' Mosque controversy, courtesy of Mark A. Schmidt:
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At a Mass for the Jubilee of Youth outside Rome, Pope Leo exhorted over a million young people to be "seeds of hope" and a "sign that a different world is possible."
Perhaps it is the hard-won wisdom that comes with age, but the Catholic rituals and practices I once scorned are the same rituals and practices that now usher me into God's presence, time and time again.
"Only through patient and inclusive dialogue" can "a just and lasting conflict resolution can be achieved" in the long-running conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, said the Holy See's permanent observer to the United Nations.
The ”Bad Guys” films ask, how do we determine who the “bad guys” are? And if you’re marked as “bad” from the start, can you ever make good?
We saw a few thousand Palestinians dancing in the streets on 9/11/2001, and very few (if any) of them were Al-Qaeda...maybe other terrorist Islamist groups such as Fatah and Hamas, but not Al-Qaeda.