Growing up summer TV seemed like an endless stretch of reruns and four-hour baseball games Twenty-odd years later I rsquo ve grown to appreciate those long baseball games and thanks to Netflix and TIVO I rsquo ll never have to watch a rerun again I rsquo m also happy to report that summer TV

Yesterday the Matthew25 Network had a conference call with reporters to unveil their plans for the general election The group is composed of believers who are Democrats and who are ldquo inspired by the Gospel mandate to put our faith into action to care for our neighbor rdquo The group is the

Barack Obama rsquo s tour of Afghanistan and Iraq is already paying dividends politically The pictures of enthusiastic troops cheering him on were worth a thousand words He is no peacenik a la Jane Fonda Ditto the photos of Obama in a helicopter with General David Petraeus They may not agree abo

nbsp Cardinal Ivan Dias Prefect of the Vatican s Congregation for Evangelisation has been addressing the world s Anglican bishops meeting at the Lambeth Conference This could be the first time the Anglican crisis has been likened publicly by a Vatican official to a degenerative disease Car

If this is the end of the Anglican Communion I don rsquo t think anybody has told most of the people here rdquo was the Archbishop of Canterbury rsquo s recent summary of the difference between the way the world views the Lambeth Conference and the way those taking part see it He made the remar

Today is a great day to be alive This morning rsquo s newspaper greeted me with the news that Radovan Karadzic the leader of the Bosnian Serbs who incited the war in Bosnia in the early 1990s has been arrested and will be brought to the Hague to face trial for war crimes Justice has moved slowly