It seems as if every couple years a National Security Agency or surveillance story is leaked to exactly the same response mass hysteria and public demands that the government release reports of just how deep these procedures dig And it seems as if every couple years we forget that the same thing h

Yesterday I made my way to St Ephrem rsquo s Church Brooklyn New York for the funeral of Bishop Joseph Sullivan This is the parish where Joe was baptized educated ldquo he had mostly A rsquo s but only a C in conduct rdquo celebrated his first Mass as a priest and bishop and where we ga

Heathrow Airport UK As I write these words I am in Terminal 5 that new and cosmopolitan crossroads for people traveling it seems just about everywhere in the world a shopping mall of global proportions I am on my way to Beijing for a brief 12-day visit more on that later But as I waitin t

Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi is refusing to comment on a quot private meeting quot but Pope Francis is being quoted by a number of European media outlets including AFP Agence France Presse as confirming the existence of a quot gay lobby quot inside the Vatican that he suggests may be

A recent study by the Rev Francis Perry Azah nbsp a priest from Ghana and a doctoral-level pastoral counselor offers a clear and wide-ranging view into situations of child abuse in Ghana Titled nbsp Wholeness of the Abused Children and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder A Psycho-Pastoral Perspectiv

Shortly after the suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings was arrested I went to some friends rsquo house for dinner We discussed the use of surveillance cameras to identify the two Tsarnaev brothers and speculated on whether other cities would be increasing their use of them Almost certainly w