Next month Pope Benedict XVI will address the United Nations and we can expect him to denounce the Iraq War in very explicit terms The press will recall that Pope John Paul II warned against the unintended consequences of the use of force before the war No one would call either of these two popes

We have previously examined the critical role Catholics play in both parties primaries as well as in the general election And if you know nothing about Pennsylvania except the fact that it has a pro-life Democratic senator Bob Casey Jr you would know how important the Catholic vote is in the

Pictures at a Revolution One pauses before assigning too much significance to the voting patterns of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. After all, this is the estimable organization that deemed Doctor Dolittle worthy of a Best Picture nomination in 1967. Yet sometimes the academys choi

Preparing for the pope's visit

Chaldean Archbishop Kidnapped in Mosul Kidnappers abducted Chaldean Catholic Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho of Mosul, Iraq on Feb. 29, and killed the three people who were traveling with him. Chaldean Bishop Rabban al Qas of Arbil told the Rome-based missionary news service AsiaNews that Mosul’

Further Questions Thank you for Gerard F. Powerss Our Moral Duty in Iraq (2/18). It would be worthwhile for leaders of our country and our military first to reconcile with those people whose loved ones we violated. This would, Ihope, lead to some real discussion about Iraqi autonomy over its resourc

The martyrdom of Catholic Chaldean archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho reminds America that the war in Iraq is far from over Indeed yesterday a car bomb also killed 17 civilians in downtown Baghdad Earlier in the week five U S soldiers were killed while on patrol The surge had indeed lessened vi

Christ the Lord The Road to Cana Anne Rice s new novel received if not a rave review then a very positive one in The New York Times this morning Times review The book is a follow-up to Christ the Lord Out of Egypt her bestselling novel about the birth and childhood of Jesus That fi

As an example of how the media sometimes can get a story wrong or at least confuse things unnecessarily witness the story from the March 8 issue of L Osservatore Romano which included an entirely sensible interview with Bishop Gianfranco Girotto an official at the Apostolic Penitentiary on

The Vatican on sainthood, a fragile peace in Kosovo