Cambridge MA I am back in Cambridge ndash 30 degrees cooler than Chicago ndash and want to fulfill yesterday s promise to write a few words about the reason for my week in Hyde Park I was participating in a seminar on theologies of religious pluralism and comparative theology sponsored by the

The nbsp archbishop of Dublin was beginning to sniffle He could not get through a story about ldquo a really nasty man rdquo mdash an Irish priest who sexually abused physically tortured and emotionally threatened vulnerable boys mdash without pulling out his handkerchief and wiping his nose

Sarah Palin rsquo s twisted family vacation ldquo Let rsquo s load up the PAC-sponsored lsquo Restore America Sarah Palin rsquo luxury bus kids rdquo has taken her from Washington DC up to New Hampshire where she attended a barbeque the same day that former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Ro

Hyde Park Chicago Perhaps the news is no worse right now than in past weeks perhaps an early summer heat wave here in Chicago where I am participating in an American Academy of Religion seminar on theologies of religious pluralism and comparative theology more on this in a future blog only ma

Just posted online a new batch of Signs of the Times stories We ll be posting new SOT items every week over the summer The first item concerns adoption services in the Catholic diocese of Rockford Ill The Diocese of Rockford has announced that its Catholic Charities offices will no longer off

A truly scary warning from Moody rsquo s Investor Services was issued yesterday but if the credit rating service hoped to end the brinkmanship over the U S debt ceiling it appears so far to have succeeded only in provoking deeper heel-digging in Congress Moody s said June 2 that ldquo if there