It would be funny if it wasn rsquo t so sad While senators worry about how to pay for health care reform threatening the best chance at achieving universal coverage in decades forty of them nonetheless voted to keep the F-22 fighter plane in production yesterday Hats off and fiscal kudos to th

Rocco Buttiglione arguably Europe s leading Catholic politician has given a very interesting interview to the Italian daily Corriere della Sera saying he no longer believes abortion should be made illegal The former friend of Pope John Paul II and Communion and Liberation member remains passiona

Yesterday rsquo s Washington Post had a story about an Episcopalian church in Virginia that is trying to decide whether or not to stay in the Episcopal Church or to break off and join the more conservative Anglican Church in North America Already four dioceses have made the break and dozens of chu

One of the comments on my post about the Sotomayor hearings claims that Trent Lott was run into the ground for far less than Sotomayor s comment about wise Latinas and their judgment I recall when Senator Lott had to resign as Majority Leader because in his effort to sing the praises of his fello

In traveling around the United States fairly intensively for the past dozen years and participating in events for Catholic churches dioceses colleges or universities I have been surprised at and interested in the responses generated if I mention that I did think about being a priest or a religiou

The new Washington Post-ABCNews poll shows that President Obama rsquo s approval ratings are returning to the earth rsquo s atmosphere Put differently the honeymoon is almost over And because the recession Obama inherited is still not over even though the honeymoon is views on the President rsq