When Pope Benedict XVI steps off his plane in Amman Friday morning King Abdullah II will be there to greet him in person The palace announced this week that in a break with protocol King Abdullah II had chosen to welcome the Holy Father personally The royal welcome will be a token of the high re

This centennial issue is our thanks to you our readers, authors and benefactors.

In response to the nbsp ongoing controversy over the University of Notre Dame rsquo s invitation to President Barack Obama to deliver this year rsquo s commencement address Hugh W Cleary C S C superior general of the Congregation of the Holy Cross has written an open letter to the president

A rip-roaring story of 21st-century humanitarianism

The Obama economic team commentators and experts of every sort are scrambling to deal with the tide of public outrage over the million dollar bonuses announced by the government-subsidized and U S -owned A I G for senior managers including those who negotiated the high-risk deals that led to the

The rush is on to conclude a global compact on climate change before the signing session due to take place in Copenhagen in December nbsp European political leaders scientists and legal experts have descended on Washington in recent weeks to educate the administration and the Congress on the impo

One hears loose talk these days about a lack of ldquo investor confidence rdquo in the Obama administration rsquo s ideas about resuscitating ldquo zombie banks rdquo those super-conglomerates whose liabilities exceed their assets nbsp For ldquo investor confidence rdquo read willing banker

Prudence and the U.S. economy

Confessions of a Lincoln devotee

It was no accident that Pope Benedict XVI chose the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity to lift the excommunication of the four bishops illicitly ordained in Ec ne Switzerland in 1988 by the late Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre The lifting of the ban was a step toward healing the breach between Rome an