It has been years since I have seen a film as dazzling beautiful and challenging as Patrice Chereau rsquo s Queen Margot It tell the story of the 16th-century French ldquo wars of religion rdquo which raised to a bloody pitch with the Saint Bartholomew rsquo s Day Massacre 1572 when for vari

Mohamed Bomassa was saved today by his baseball cap ldquo Pour la Paix rdquo it reads he holds it up for a photo ldquo This protected me rdquo he says explaining that for a Muslim youth crossing Bangui the capital city of the Central African Republic can be a fatal experience these days

On Wednesday April 30 the United States Senate voted against legislation that would officially increase the federal minimum wage from 7 25 an hour at which it has remained since 2009 without adjusting for continued inflation to President Obama rsquo s proposed 10 10 which would take effect by

The first academic article I ever published was in 2007 about two medieval British theologians Robert Grosseteste and John Duns Scotus titled ldquo Light and Love Robert Grosseteste and John Duns Scotus on the How and Why of Creation rdquo although the first popular article I ever published h

In Bangui before the violence between the city rsquo s Muslim and Christian communities reached a crescendo in recent weeks life was hardly easy in the first place Unemployment and poverty are sky high in this capital of the Central African Republic a land-locked nation with a modest tourism trad

Joseph J Dunn quot Noble Vocations A Defense of Business Education in Catholic Schools rdquo tempts a response I was one of those Catholics who expressed anxiety about the much-discussed Koch Brothers gift to Catholic University of America When Mr Dunn and the leaders of Catholic University