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Like Flannery O'Connor, “Mad Men” radically resets a situation so that viewers see themselves from a previously unknown vantage point.

With Alice McDermott, a new and different kind of Catholic novel has appeared.

“Climate change is another situation where the poor of the world are being made to suffe because of the habits of the first world,” said Cardinal Keith O’Brien of Scotland.

A groundbreaking survey of “religious activists” has found that activists on both ends of the political spectrum are deeply religious.

Pope Benedict XVI said that he was deeply saddened to hear of the roadside bombing that killed 10 Afghan civilians and six Italian soldiers.

Catholics in North Africa say that the Vatican does not seem to recognize that they face different challenges than sub-Saharan Africa.

Bishop Luis Santos Villeda said that dialogue is important to avoid the possibility of civil war.