Pope Francis has opened the door to the canonization of Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta He did so this afternoon Dec 17 when he recognized the miraculous cure of a Brazilian man that took place at the end of 2008 nbsp The news was broken unofficially this evening by the Italian Catholic daily

Where this peculiar style of doing electoral politics has touched public life in Britain, and caused a lot of offence, is his claim that the United Kingdom has a “massive Muslim problem” and that we are going to great lengths t disguise it.

Sith or Jedi: it's all about the small choices. So as a wise prophet once said, choose wisely.

The outrage at Sandy Hook provoked yet another short-lived cry across the nation for greater restrictions on gun ownership. As in the past, gun lobbyists bided their time and turned to their congressional rolodexes.

“The Catholic Church could do things with political consequences if it coordinated with political leaders.”

The lie of anger is that it liberates us and isolates those who deserve punishment. The truth of anger is that it isolates us and liberates no one.