Former Governor of Utah and Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman announced his candidacy for president using the same backdrop that Ronald Reagan once chose New York rsquo s Statue of Liberty Michelle Bachmann emphasized her roots in the hometown of her childhood Waterloo Iowa proving yet again

From Criterio magazine via Mirada Global a tribute to the late Argentinian writer He would have made it to being a century old if it hadn rsquo t occurred to him to die two months short of his 100th birthday Argentinean writer Ernesto Sabato was born in Rojas a city in the pampa 240 km from Bue

In a not surprising turn of events Catholic News Agency reports that while Cardinal Jose Policarpo s remarks were accurate about the possibility of women priests that they were taken out of context and that the president of Portugal s bishops confernce does not support female ordination From the

Below is a newly surfaced nbsp account of a brief conversation that Dorothy Day the co-founder of the Catholic Worker movement and longtime peace activist now being considered for canonization had with Daniel Marshall a longtime member of the Catholic Worker movement around 1977 a few years bef

Several people have asked whether I might say a bit more about biblical scholar Avaren Ipsen s recent book Sex Working and the Bible which I began to discuss in a recent post so I will go ahead and do so here Ipsen s basic approach is to provide agency for marginalized readers of the Bible not

For any readers interested in a challenging new book about sex workers and the Bible I have put up a post about it here Tom Beaudoin Hastings-on-Hudson NY