I do not know whether the practice can be defined as torture under the Vienna Convention and I am certain it is not mentioned in the Army field manual for the interrogation of suspects but it is time to bring back the pillory Pillories are made of wood and they were used as a form of punishment i

Nicole Winfield of AP has the story here nbsp And Catholic News is reporting that Cardinal Walter Kasper called denial of the Holocaust stupid From her story The Vatican said Monday that comments by a recently rehabilitated bishop that no Jews were gassed during the Holocaust were unacceptable

Kevin Rudd Prime Minister of Australia Today January 26th is Australia Day one of the two really major holidays that Australia celebrates 221 years ago today the First Fleet of British ships carrying convicts and soldiers arrived in Sydney Harbor to begin the British penal colony there T

The New York church lost another distinguished priest this weekend Just over a month after the death of Avery Cardinal Dulles and two weeks after the passing Richard John Neuhaus Msgr William B Smith died after a short hospitalization Msgr Smith was a longtime professor of moral theology at S

Joining their voices to leaders of other nations the Southern African Catholic Bishops Conference issued a statement in mid-December saying that ldquo it is now time to isolate Mugabe completely and to remove all forms of moral material or tacit support for him rdquo Disease is making further i

Whither hope Last week I complained that Obama rsquo s inaugural address was all spinach and no hope and that it lacked an over-arching narrative His roll-out of the economic stimulus plan suffers from a similar problem The words may have been poll tested as Carrie Budoff Brown shows over at Pol