Reports in recent days described the deluge of phone calls that members of Congress have received about the bailout legislation By all accounts virtually all callers have been demanding that Wall Street not be bailed out In the wake of the failed House vote yesterday the vociferous and seemingly

Bipartisanship has become a mantra in Washington as the nation faces an unprecedented economic crisis And after 20 years of slash-and-burn partisanship there is something to be said for bipartisanship But yesterday the blame for Congress rsquo s failure to structure a bailout rests partly with

It takes a European to ask this I know And I tread gingerly here - at least by my own largely ginger-free standards Only nbsp whatever happened to the death penalty as a moral priority for Catholics in the US presidential election Why don t they challenge their candidates on the issue It

In 1936 near the end of the election campaign a Roman Catholic priest gave a nationwide radio address endorsing Franklin Delano Roosevelt for re-election In this critical hour I urge you to use every effort at your command among your relatives friends and acquaintances in support of Franklin D

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Catholics Worldwide Reach Out to Haiti Catholic relief agencies and parishes worldwide are responding to the devastation in Haiti, which has been battered by four severe hurricanes. Caritas Internationalis, the umbrella organization for 162 national Catholic charity organizations, is seeking $4.3 mi

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Justice for Africa As someone who works to promote social justice in Africa, I applaud “Decline and Progress in Africa,” by Peter Schineller, S.J. (8/11). Schineller is absolutely correct in suggesting that the solution to Africa’s problems must come from within Africa and that int

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