Relations between the Church and the disgraced Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi are fast dropping below zero Scheduled talks with Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone -- the Pope s number two -- have been cancelled following extraordinary attacks by Il Giornale owned by Berlusconi s brother Paolo on the ed

What was accomplished by the now notorious meeting for a few beers at the White House at which President Obama and Vice-President Biden welcomed Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr and Cambridge police officer James Crowley Unlike the imbroglio over Rev Jeremiah Wright President Obama did n

The Obama adminstration yesterday nominated attorney Kenneth Feinberg to the newly created post of compensation czar from which he will help the government as Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said rein in pay practices that motivated executives to take excessive risks in pursuit of profit

Speaking on behalf of his fellow Catholic bishops in California, Bishop Stephen E. Blaire of Stockton praised the California Supreme Court decision.

Tomorrow leading Senators will hold a press conference with groups ranging from Human Rights Watch to the Chamber of Commerce to announce a renewed effort to lift or at least ameliorate the worst restrictions of the boycott of Cuba Catholics should applaud this effort When the economic boycott an

Where science and spirituality meet

The first question that comes to mind about these two eminently sensible books is ldquo who reads them and why rdquo There must be an audience for the issues addressed Baker and O rsquo Malley rsquo s Leading With Kindness is one of an exhausting number of books on the topic Amazon lists 311 487

The Obama administration has decided to repeal a last-minute Bush administration regulation granting wide protections to health care workers from being fired or otherwise penalized for a religiously based unwillingness to perform acts they find morally objectionable The decision is regrettable even

Barack Obama, FOCA & Catholic attitudes about abortion

It is easy enough to understand how some pastors tend to ignore issues of poverty health care and peace in their preaching if they do not follow the common lectionary but instead choose at will the biblical text on which to preach The concern for personal holiness with a special focus on the ho