For those who are dedicated readers scholars researchers mdash or just plain bibliophiles mdash welcome news came across the wires May 7th that the New York Public Library has finally decided to shelve pun definitively intended the grandiose ldquo Central Library Plan rdquo It was a plan to r

On May 5 2014 the U S Supreme Court decided in a 5-4 vote that the Town of Greece New York did not violate the First Amendment when it invited local clergy to pray before the opening of town board meetings Significantly all nine justices affirmed the constitutionality of public legislative pr

The truck lurches and weaves with every rut and gully on the bush trail mdash and there are many of them mdash in slow but steady progress through to the outlying villages around Bossangoa The day before two large lorries broke down repeatedly during the same exercise through these small villages

Does the canonization process include ldquo a kind of church sponsored blasphemy rdquo James Carroll claimed in the Boston Globe that requiring two healing miracles for sainthood ldquo implies that God actively declines to intervene in countless other cases rdquo And this ldquo effectively ma

Coming from such a large and imposing figure the soft voice of the general is a surprise One has to lean in and listen closely to hear Mohamed-Moussa Dhaffane speak sharing the high drama of the moment in something close to a whisper Acting President of the Seleka in the Central African Republic

As a defense of teaching about business in Catholic universities ldquo Noble Vocations rdquo by Joseph J Dunn 3 24 is intelligent and clear The title of the article a quote from Pope Francis rsquo apostolic exhortation ldquo The Joy of the Gospel rdquo is a good one It underlines an o