Lest anyone suspect that Afghanistan is the only theater of war that U S strategists need to concern themselves with the recent car bombings in Iraq is a seriously unwelcome reminder that things may not be proceeding altogether well in that front of the late unlamented war on terror An Iraqi Cr

Michael Sandel the wildly popular Harvard professor whose courses on justice have drawn SRO crowds for two decades is the subject of a PBS series called Justice What s the Right Thing to Do which is also available for online viewing nbsp His book of the same title has just been published

The Seattle Times nbsp has picked up the story of the Rev Michael Ryan s piece on the new Mass translations What If We Just Said Wait which appeared in last week s edition of the magazine and generated a raft of responses both here 133 comments and counting and on other websites A new t

Atheist groups are reaching out advertising their beliefs on billboards buses and subways in recent months with slogans such as ldquo No god hellip No problem rdquo Such groups have made an extra effort during the holiday season placing 270 ads on city buses and trains in the Washington

From Robert Mickens at The London Tablet Pope Benedict XVI has said that a Marxist-driven liberation theology is continuing to cause great harm to the Church in Brazil 25 years after he first tried to crack down on its proliferation ldquo Its consequences more or less visible in the form of rebe

Back in 2004 Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman rsquo s campaign coined the word Joe-mentum after their candidate received a slight uptick in the polls There were other wordplays of a similar sort all of which involved inserting the candidate rsquo s first name into a word replacing a syllable