"There has been no vocal, effective, reliable and consistent constituency for Africa in this country," complained Leonard H. Robinson Jr., a deputy assistant secretary of state for African affairs in the Reagan and Bush administrations. "Africa needs all the friends it can get in Amer
One February day last year, I was working at my office as Dominican formation director, when I received a call from Karen Pollard, B.V.M., of the St. Louis Archdiocesan Criminal Justice Ministry. She told me that a prisoner on death row in Potosi Correctional Institute, about 70 miles from St. Louis
With civil wars exploding around the world the essays in The Open Door come at an opportune moment Originally given as annual addresses before the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland co-publisher with the Center for International Health and Cooperation they represent the thought of some of the
Donald Cozzens sits at a unique crossroads being both a priest of 35 years and the rector of a major seminary So this must have been at once a sadand yet liberatingbook to write For what Father Cozzens rector of St Mary Seminary in Cleveland has embarked upon is as comprehensive and honest an
In these last two weeks of Lent the readings draw our eyes to the crucified one with a focus on what God has done for us The promise of the new covenant embodies the aging Jeremiah rsquo s spiritual testament to an exiled people that even though they have sinned in the past quot I will be thei
Vermont Bishop Decries Passage of Civil Unions’ BillBishop Kenneth A. Angell of Burlington said a bill approved by the Vermont House allowing civil unions between homosexuals is simply same-sex marriage under another name. The bishop said the 76-to-69 vote made him feel the way he supposed a m