Last night ldquo Mad Men rdquo viewers must have wondered if they had mistakenly tuned into another AMC show nbsp The first few seconds of the nbsp episode nbsp began with a piano riff and then surprisingly the screen filling with the image of a voluptuous Ann-Margret singing the openi

Politico com has a great article today detailing some of the more outrageous comments made by members of Congress this August Neither party has a monopoly on foolishness nor even on Nazi-metaphors which are worse than foolish Political rhetoric can and should get heated at times and the image of

So says Phil Fox Rose in this post on Bustedhalo entitled For I Was Ill and You Cared for Me nbsp People of faith are not of one political party or the other mdash not all conservative or all progressive all right or all left But most people of faith believe as a core principle that we shou

nbsp nbsp nbsp One of my youngest daughter s friends marked the summer after her high school graduation by getting an abortion Apparently she was petrified that her father would have her slightly older boyfriend thrown in jail that she would have to put off going to college and that her mothe

Simmering tensions between the Church and the Italian Right over immigration spilled out over the weekend after the Italian bishops joined UN criticism of the way international ships recently left 73 Africans on a raft to die of dehydration ignoring their pleas for help Only five survived The bis

Thanks to an alert reader who spotted this in the Letters section of the London Tablet nbsp In my earlier post on the decision of the archbishop of Tulsa to nbsp celebrate Masses ad orientem nbsp I included nbsp the Tablet s editorial about Archbishop Vincent Nichols Westminster communications