When I sat down to my computer Monday morning to write about the racial overtones in some of the anti-Obama protesters I had not read Maureen Dowd rsquo s column in the New York Times All weekend I had been wrestling with the question of whether or not to raise the issue of racism and tried to co

There seems to be an H1N1-like outbreak of namecalling and general well outspokenness in the past few days nbsp From the now-famous Congressman-slash-pariah or slash-folk-hero depending on your political views Joe Wilson You lie to an apoplectic nbsp Serena Williams mouthing off to the l

For sighing comes more readily to me than food and my groans well forth like water Job 3 25 The drought currently plaguing Kenya has brought searing images of thirsty and hungry people into our living rooms or onto our computer screens nbsp Despite our sympathy sometimes it is hard to understan

The struggle over government funding for Faith-Based organizations is back in the news as critics of such funding are calling on the President to keep a pledge he made during the campaign in a speech in Zanesville Ohio He said If you get a federal grant you can rsquo t use that money to prosely

Former UK prime minister Tony Blair has given a double-page interview to Osservatore Romano the papal newspaper in which he talks of his conversion to Catholicism and how faith is at the heart of his life and work Both Osservatore and the Guardian which reports the interview headline Blair s am

Another Jesuit from Philadelphia I m a proud one tipped me off to this frankly alarming news story about the closing temporary they hope nbsp of all public libraries in the vast Philadelphia Library system including the nbsp massive Free Library of Philadelphia in Center City which has been