LONDON I am told that the last three speakers here have been the Pope Her Majesty the Queen and Nelson Mandela President Obama began his speech at Westminster Hall which is either a very high bar or the beginning of a very funny joke President Obama is the first ever US President to addres

Today Oprah Winfrey signs off after 25 years on daytime television It has been by any estimation an astonishing career In episodes 4561 Emmys 48 guests 30 000 -- including at least one Jesuit gifts given books promoted money made -- even in that most unusual of daytime television cat

nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp This week on May 26 Pat Conroy S J a Jesuit of the Oregon Province is due to be inaugurated as the 60th House Chaplain for the House of Representatives-- the first such Jesuit chaplain and only the second Catholic priest to hold the position I knew P

As anticipated the General Assembly of Caritas Internationalis under way in Rome this week has turned out to be a defining moment in the organisation s 60-year-old history as one leading Vatican official after another has sought to tie it more closely to the Holy See and the Church s mission ad ge

Much talk these days swirls around the impending crisis over the national debt ceiling That rsquo s certainly true within the friendly mostly confines of America rsquo s Web site It rsquo s too bad there rsquo s no painless way around the debt crisis It looks like the U S middle and upper clas

This post is a letter of qualified recommendation for a very funny smart and frequently profane set of conversations that happen on the WTF podcast I was not a podcast-kind-of-guy until I heard this show hosted by the comedian Marc Maron Twice a week he posts interviews recorded in his ga