Ever since the election of Pope Francis I rsquo ve been eagerly waiting to hear who would be named as the Vatican Secretary of State a position in the church that manages the internal workings of the Vatican the appointment of new bishops and the church rsquo s diplomatic relations In my previo

In just 24 hours an article written by Allison Benedikt on nbsp Slate nbsp titled ldquo If you Send Your Kid to Private School You are a Bad Person rdquo elicited more than 5 000 comments from readers It doesn rsquo t take much imagination to see why The title Benedikt an editor at nbsp Slate

Last week following a year of disgust with the local tabloids The New York Daily News and The New York Post I sat down to write a short essay on how their sick preoccupation with sex and violence has disgraced the American journalistic tradition Originally tabloids and sensationalism were legit

With Syria still on the forefront of everyone 39 s minds Drew Christiansen S J wrote a piece nbsp on this blog about what the international community should do next A Syrian born patriarch spoke with Catholic News Service and said he believes that intervention will spread like a world war The

The videos of children and adults in the Damascus suburbs in convulsions and gasping for air after inhaling airborne nerve agents apparently dispersed in the Damascus suburbs on Aug 21 nbsp were a horror to watch If the U N Observers find that the casualties were indeed the results of banned chem

The fast food workers who walked off the job today to call for fair wages have very few cards in their hand They don rsquo t have strong established unions in place to represent them They don rsquo t have scarce job skills that make it difficult to replace them nbsp They don rsquo t occupy str