June 8, 2009

As youngsters we had ways of sealing the bond of friendship with our best friends We girls would exchange friendship rings pledging our undying loyalty to one another Our brothers would make a small cut on their finger and then mingle their blood with their buddy rsquo s to signify the unbreakab

'Often it is only at the end of our rope that revelation becomes possible.'

Reading the economic crisis

Pope Benedict Visits Israel; Bishops and Politics

The Vatican has condemned the latest round of nuclear testing by North Korea.

Chaldean Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho, of Mosul, Iraq, was honored posthumously with the 2009 Path to Peace Award in New York on June 9.

Speaking on behalf of his fellow Catholic bishops in California, Bishop Stephen E. Blaire of Stockton praised the California Supreme Court decision.