As the World Cup continues to draw international attention, we might stop to ponder how God works for our good in all things, even sports.

After our June 18 report nbsp on baptismal certificates recorded in Tuam I queried the Associated Press regarding their stories on the Tuam Mothers and Babies Home Today AP issued the following correction Ireland-Children rsquo s Mass Graves storyDUBLIN AP mdash In stories published June 3 and

It was heartbreaking on June 12 to hear Mohammed Al Dulaimy an Iraqi reporter for McClatchy Newspapers speak on ldquo Democracy Now rdquo nbsp As Mosul a city of two million falls to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria or ISIS and Iraqi soldiers drop their arms and flee we hear that the mi

ldquo Babies born inside the institutions were denied baptism and if they died from the illness and disease rife in such facilities also denied a Christian burial rdquo It is a sentence unattributed to any source which repeats mdash either word for word or in a close approximation mdash in hu

It rsquo s always a strange experience to read about home while abroad mdash seeing my own country scrutinized from the outside and recognizing my pride and shame compete as my sense of self is shaped by that scrutiny As an Irishman I travelled to the United States with a sense of entitlement to t

Among our many family photographs there is one of me as a toddler beginning to take tentative first steps I am reaching out my hand to my father who is beside me looking down at me with some concern ready to grasp mine I am dressed in a light-blue winter outfit with the hood pulled up over my