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The various revelations emerging from the classified material acquired and released by wikileaks org will certainly prove an embarrassment to U S diplomats and to security professionals whose job it is to protect government secrets ldquo But I just don rsquo t think the world is going to end or d

A bit of controversy developing in DC after the National Portrait Gallery pulled a video from an exhibit exploring sexuality in part due to pressure from Bill Donohue s Catholic League The exhibit Hide Seek Difference and Desire in American Portraiture is one of the more controversial exhi

On December 1 1958 a fire broke out at Our Lady of the Angels School in Chicago Illinois Ninety-two children and three nuns died in the fire that occurred 52 years today Afterwards sweeping changes were made in fire codes across the nation and firefighters in training still study the OLA fire

Daniel Madigan SJ an associate professor of theology at Georgetown and senior fellow at the Woodstock Theological Center is an Australian Jesuit and a distinguished scholar of religions nbsp Here he is on CNN com addressing the pope s recent comments on the use of condoms to prevent HIV AIDS a

This week Joseph G Bock looks at the unique role of Catholic N G O s in Haiti s recovery efforts following the earthquake that claimed the lives of over 220 000 people this past January Our intern P J Williams produced the slideshow below based on the article For more of America s co