While today we celebrate our own planetary home with Earth Day the Philadelphia Inquirer s Faye Flam nbsp reports from a nbsp meeting in England that scientists have discovered the most Earth-like world yet orbiting a star 21 light-years away nbsp Previous discoveries or inferences since de

Sometimes in politics something that is said by a politician is so outrageous that it is the late night comics not the newsmen who capture the essence of the absurdity So it is with the remarks of former Vice-President of the United States Dick Cheney regarding the release of Justice Department

The announcement that Bishop Robert Carlson is headed to St Louis which has been vacant almost a year is welcome news indeed Like the previous incumbent Archbishop Raymond Burke Carlson is not likely to be mistaken for a liberal anytime soon But more importantly he brings a compelling perso

Youth violence surfaces in our public consciousness this week as we mark the 10th anniversary of Columbine As we inevitably debate the conditions and causes for youth violence we would do well to pay attention to a pervasive and life-threatening condition that affects a growing number of American

Watching President Barack Obama at the Summit of the Americas confirmed that this man rsquo s personal story has intertwined with the nation rsquo s complicated and usually tragic racial history in such a way that others can rsquo t tear their eyes away from him President Obama walks into a room an

Jerry Filteau of the The National Catholic Reporter reports on a recent statement by the Committee on Doctrine of the US Catholic Bishops characterizing Reiki as superstition and as not compatible with either Christian teaching or scientific evidence The document titled Guidelines for Evaluat