In 1992 Bill Clinton demonstrated a self-critical stance towards an important constituency or a craven but brilliant capacity for political calculus when he denounced a hate-filled remark by the black singer Sister Souljah while addressing Jesse Jackson s Rainbow Coalition Clinton s aim was

Next month s Pennsylvania primary has taken on a disproportionate importance In fact as recently demonstrated by Jim Vandehei and Mike AllenClinton has almost no shot at winning the Democratic nomination Obama has already won a majority of the states and has an insurmountable lead in pledged de

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Christians had been fleeing Iraq for years before the U.S. invasion in 2003. The ancient Assyrian Church of the East saw four-fifths of its members emigrate before 2000 and its ancient patriarchate transferred to Chicago. The government of Saddam Hussein persecuted the Assyrians because of their res

Pope and Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew Pray Together Pope Benedict XVI and Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople spent almost half an hour speaking privately March 6 before going into a small Vatican chapel to pray together. Although it was the patriarch’s first visit t

I know several Abrahams. Let me mention three, two living and one dead. Ibrahim A. works on the maintenance staff of Loyola Jesuit College on the outskirts of Abuja in Nigeria. A Jukun from Taraba state in northeastern Nigeria, Ibrahim is a Catholic, although many of his closest relatives belong to

Brazil experienced an economic boom in the late 1960s. With its gross national product growing handsomely at a rate of 7 percent to 8 percent, Brazil was praised by many development economists as an example of diversified, investment-led prosperity. But while the industries of Rio de Janeiro and Sã

Why did terrorists attack the United States The Kentucky farmer and writer Wendell Berry believes they were responding to U S corporate economic institutions that harm the poor and accept deadly pollution and global climate change as mere costs of doing business Michael S Northcott a priest of

It would be difficult to conjure up a more offensive tirade to ethnic Catholic ears than the one Barack Obama s pastor delivered after 9 11 about chickens coming home to roost Catholics do not have a monopoly on patriotism by any means but patriotism has a monopoly on the American Catholic mind