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Washington Funeral Mass for Tim Russert The presumptive Democratic and Republican presidential nominees were among the scores of mourners at the private funeral Mass on June 18 for the NBC News Washington bureau chief and “Meet the Press” moderator Tim Russert, who died suddenly June 13

A young feminist embraces the pro-life cause.

A Guarantee Thank you for “The Forgotten,” by Pierre de Charentenay, S.J. (6/9). The fate of Iraqi Christians should be as important to humanity as was the fate of Muslims in Sarajevo in the early 1990s, and their tragedy should inspire the same solidarity around the world, especially fr

A skilled author can introduce ideas that change a reader rsquo s consciousness In Disciples of All Nations Lamin Sanneh delivers just that Before engaging directly this important book let me briefly digress to illustrate such a ldquo perspective changing rdquo moment from personal experience

The Fourth of July is a most appropriate time to recall a discussion St Paul had in his First Letter to the Corinthians There in a dialogue form he hears someone s saying to him Everything is lawful to me Paul s responds But I do not want anything to dominate me He is thinkin

Cambridge MA June 27-30 I was in Orlando Florida for the Seventh International Conference of the World Association of Vedic Studies WAVES This is a meeting of Hindus who meet every second year for a conference that is in part a cultural event in part a confidence-building gathering and in

Sen John McCain has seen his support among Latino voters tank and he needs to do something about it For years the GOP s share of this demographic has been growing and in 2004 George W Bush garnered 44 percent of the Latino vote But recent polls have Obama taking 60 percent of Latinos to McCa

Austen Ivereigh has done a great service by getting beneath the tabloid headlines about gay bishops and same-sex marriage to point out that the underlying difference in the Anglican Communion as found in the recent meeting of dissidents in Jerusalem has to do with the literal interpretation of scr