Good books with substantial content can often be read at different levels each of the readings may offer a fresh story and some deeper insights Asylum Denied is such a work It is authored jointly by David Kenney a former refugee from his native Kenya and now a legal U S resident and Philip Sch

Ten things to remember this fall

A study in tolerance, reviewed

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

Barack Obama rsquo s convention speech was the last time he had the undivided attention of the American people to make a sustained argument for his candidacy The debates will be critical as everyone agrees But in the meantime he can frame the race by delivering four soundbites that hit on key is

Indian Court Urged to Protect Christians The Catholic Church in India has petitioned the country’s Supreme Court to protect Christian lives and property in Orissa State. Archbishop Raphael Cheenath of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar told the Asian church news agency UCA News Sept. 2 that the church decide

Allan Figueroa Deck on ethnic ministry

ldquo As Catholics go so goes America rdquo religion scholar and Boston College professor Alan Wolfe recently wrote happily in the blurb for my book The quintessential swing voters for the past 35 years have been white ethnic Catholics living in suburbs in the Northeast and Midwest They we

I m going to take a punt Pope Benedict XVI s four-day visit to France beginning this Friday is set to be one of the defining moments of his pontificate The theme of his papacy has always been to challenge the dictatorship of relativism -- his memorable term for the newly-invigorated Europe

Sixty days to go We are waiting for the polling numbers to shake out after the post-convention bounces But who is winning on the different components of a campaign on message biography the issues and on the ground Usually the two parties craft different messages for an election depending on