The president's speech was short and effective, but left some key questions unanswered.

"We have to tell people, tell politicians, to work harder because peace is possible."

Keynote speaker off stage booed off stage by Middle East Christian bishops and eparchs.

Eight years ago this Friday Sept 12 Pope Benedict XVI delivered a lecture at the University of Regensburg in Bavaria in which he seemed to diagnose Islam as a religion inherently flawed by fanaticism It was an undiplomatic assertion to say the least.

Sister Mary Ann Walsh says 'Calvary' reflects the essence of contemporary priesthood.

These are astonishing days in Scotland and in the rest of the UK The mood is unprecedented febrile fevered frenzied We are seeing and hearing developments that nobody could have foreseen precisely because we have never been in this situation before The Scottish Independence Referendum is now