Some voices on the Left are unhappy with the health care reform bill the Senate will vote on this week They are upset about the lack of a public option They are mad that Sen Joe Lieberman abandoned a position he has long held in favor of a Medicare buy-in and by doing so got that provision toss

Traditional Christian concern for foreigners on the move -- Every migrant enjoys inalienable fundamental rights which must be respected in all cases says the key Vatican document -- is heightened at Christmas when minds turn to a displaced family 2 000 years ago that was also in search of shelte

I turned from being relatively indifferent to perhaps even a skeptic about global warming into someone who takes its peril quite seriously when I first read Tim Flannery rsquo s 2001 book The Weather Makers How Man is Changing the Climate and What it Means for Life on Earth Flannery has now

Cathy Kaveny nbsp makes a good point over at Dotcommonweal Saints don rsquo t have to be perfect And in canonizing Pope Pius XII the Church really doesn rsquo t mean to endorse his approach to nbsp Nazism And in canonizing Pope John Paul II the Church really doesn rsquo t mean to endorse his h

It is difficult for anyone schooled in the Catholic Church rsquo s social justice tradition not to be moved and moved profoundly by the prospect of near universal health insurance a prospect that took a giant step towards realization early this morning when the Senate invoked cloture on the refor

Lots of news from the Congregation of the Causes of the Saints today Pope John Paul II has been declared Venerable which nbsp had nbsp been nbsp expected for some time nbsp So has Pope Pius XII which was not expected though is not nbsp terribly surprising given the comments coming from the V