Discussion about art or beauty often regresses to a familiar conversation stopper ldquo Beauty rdquo someone inevitably will say ldquo is in the eye of the beholder rdquo End of discussion Many of the parishoners of Our Lady of Guadeloupe in Denver are living this frustrating stalemate An

Being a refugee should be a temporary condition. Under international law, people who have fled their homes out of fear of persecution should be able to return home once conditions improve or, when they are prevented from doing so, make a new home elsewhere. To be uprooted from one’s home is es

Over at the American Spectator writer Mark Tooley takes to task the Episcopal bishops of the United States for promoting the notion that impenetrable national borders may immorally block access to basic human rights such as employment health care food education and other necessities and that t

The New Mass; Who Is Not Coming?; Developing Obesity

How to preserve the rich patrimony of the Eastern churches?

Relax, They Won’t Hurt I have just perused the changes referred to in “Musicians Prepare for Coming Changes in Mass Text” (8/2). They are very minor. They seem to reflect a return to translations that older members might remember from the joint Latin-English missals. In this respec

The NYT CBS poll Sept 10-14 2010 is just one random sample a national telephone poll conducted a few weeks before an important Congressional election Yet the information in it indicates what is actually on the mind of registered voters which is reason enough to pay close attention to what vot

Moving from a hospice mentality to renewed hope