Observers at the Copenhagen climate conference from Caritas Internationalis were pretty underwhelmed by commitments from European states to help poor nations in the developing world mitigate unnatural disasters due to global warming calling the purported new commitments a wind-powered bluff In a

Apparently a thoroughly devastating report on clerical sexual and physical abuse of Irish children and attempts to cover it up by the Irish hierarchy has been gruesome enough to draw an unprecedented response from Pope Benedict XVI Benedict met with senior Irish bishops and high-ranking members of

When it rains it pours Just when I finish a blogpost about the - hmmmm how to put this gently ndash the unspeakably stupid remarks being made about President Obama rsquo s speech yesterday in Oslo I find an even grosser example of intellectual idiocy over at Huffington Post There Barbara Com

The lack of basic knowledge of the traditions of Western thought is a sore affliction in anyone but in people who are paid to write about important events this lack is criminal The commentary on President Obama rsquo s Nobel lecture in Oslo yesterday has hit new lows in this regard Consider the

A Gaza-born resident of the West Bank and Bethlehem University student will not be allowed to complete her college education with just two-months to go before her graduation after the Israeli High Court of Justice accepted the Israeli Defense Forces decision to expel the young woman in October B

There is not another politician in America who could have delivered the speech given by President Barack Obama this morning when he received the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo It was an intellectual tour de force and the force came from his own intellect not from that of his speechwriters This was his