Last night Barack Obama scored another big win in a small state beating Hillary Clinton by 61 to 37 and netting 3 delegates more delegates than the former first lady By way of comparison in Ohio last week Clinton netted 9 more delegates than Obama His margin in the popular vote almost 97 00

The political world is reeling from the explosive revelation that New York Governor Elliot Spitzer was a client of a very pricey prostitution ring The news sent shockwaves across the political landscape and you could almost hear the schadenfreude on Wall Street Those who had felt the censorious we

As an example of how the media sometimes can get a story wrong or at least confuse things unnecessarily witness the story from the March 8 issue of L Osservatore Romano which included an entirely sensible interview with Bishop Gianfranco Girotto an official at the Apostolic Penitentiary on

This June our excellent parochial school is being closed after a hundred years My live in granddaughter Perry went there for the last eight years and has just moved to the local public school I am grateful that she had the advantages of Catholic education that sociologists have described these sc

The Sunday news shows were dominated by discussions of how the Democratic race could turn out What happens to Michigan and Florida will be critical but unless those states re-do their primaries in some fashion it is almost impossible for Hillary Clinton to overtake Barack Obama in the delegate co

The news from New Haven is that former British Prime Minister and recent convert to Catholicism Tony Blair will teach a seminar at Yale University next year on Faith and Globalization Or considering his side of the pond Globalisation Blair will serve as the Howland Distinguished Fellow