It looks like public employee wages are emerging as a major public policy issue nbsp A number of prominent conservatives have been making a loud case that government workers are spoiled and overpaid President Obama while not endorsing the characterization has agreed that the current economic c

Over in Books and Culture America s Jake Martin has an excellent review of three worthy tv series 30 Rock and Parks and Recreation both on NBC and The Big Bang Theory on CBS He writes The landscape of television these days is a grim one with little to appeal to a thoughtful reflective audi

Did you have a chance to listen to Fr Jim Martin s appearance on NPR s The Dianne Rehm Show where he joined Episcopal priest Fr Alberto Cutie to discuss celibacy and the priestly life Cutie is promoting his new book Dilemma parts of which read as a polemic against celibacy and speak of the na

Every year on the feast of St Agnes Jan 21 the pope blesses two lambs The wool from these lambs is then used to create a pallium for each new archbishop But what do those lambs do while waiting for their papal audience CNS has the story Raised by Trappist monks on the outskirts of Rome th

The news has broken today that the sole US manufacturer of a key drug used in lethal injections will cease production because authorities in Italy where the drug was to be made wanted a guarantee that it wouldn t be used to put inmates to death Hospira Inc of Lake Forest Ill had decided to swi

There are as many paths to God as there are individuals This series on Huffington Post looks at six of the most well-traveled paths for contemporary believers Part 1 The Path of Belief can be nbsp found here nbsp The Path of Independence is one of the most commonly traveled paths today for s