Margaret Trost was a well-to-do American successful in business happily married with a healthy son Then in the late 1990s her husband died suddenly and unexpectedly In her grief she decided on impulse to go to Haiti with a group of faith-based social justice activists ldquo I was invited to

The largest migration in human history has nothing to do with barbarian tribes the slave trade or Ellis Island It is the movement of 130 million Chinese who starting in the late 1970s have poured out of rural China into the cities No one person could adequately analyze or summarize this tremend

They entered Capharnaum on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee that is Jesus and his disciples He taught on the Sabbath in the synagogue he is the only teacher in his group The people in the synagogue were astounded by Jesus teaching because he was teaching with authority i e

Robert Mickens the Rome correspondent for the London Tablet has a lengthy article on the SSPX saga in this week s Tablet here nbsp He also sent us this much more nbsp personal reflection which he has allowed us to post here Pope Benedict XVI said at his general audience on Wednesday that the

Estupido What else to call GOP opposition in the Senate to the State Children rsquo s Health Insurance Program SCHIP expanding the program to include 4 million more children all of it funded by an always advisable raise in the federal cigarette tax The vote was 66-32 largely along party lines

Like many other concerned citizens who are not specialists in climatology I have regularly looked for some helpful keys to understand and assess the many controverted claims about global warming How fast is it happening How urgent is it that we act now At what level of parts per million can we t

President Obama rsquo s stimulus proposal failed to garner a single Republican vote in the House yesterday Their objections were many but were they legitimate On balance no but neither were the defenders of the bill examples of reasonableness Objection 1 This bill contains pork barrel spending

Joining their voices to leaders of other nations the Southern African Catholic Bishops Conference issued a statement in mid-December saying that ldquo it is now time to isolate Mugabe completely and to remove all forms of moral material or tacit support for him rdquo Disease is making further i

A reader has chastised us here at America for not offering a post about the annual March for Life It is a fair question I can only answer for myself but I have very mixed feelings about the March What I like about it is also what I don rsquo t like about It has failed utterly to make a differenc