CNN has had the best coverage by far of the Haitian earthquake nbsp The network and its reporter Anderson Cooper who was apparently one of the first journalists to enter Port-au-Prince after the earthquake is to be greatly commended for bringing this nbsp immense human tragedy into our

Writers like to be noticed by the mainstream media so perhaps I should be flattered that the Wall Street Journal took cognizance of my existence yesterday William McGurn who contributes to the venerable newspaper rsquo s Mainstreet blog wrote about how pro-life Democrats like Congressman Bart St

A new framework for high school catechesis fails to persuade.

There is serious talk of forming a new centre-right Catholic party in the wake of the clash between the Church and the philandering Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi according to this interesting report by the Times in London At the centre of the attempt to create a new Christian Democrat bloc is

Relations between the Church and the disgraced Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi are fast dropping below zero Scheduled talks with Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone -- the Pope s number two -- have been cancelled following extraordinary attacks by Il Giornale owned by Berlusconi s brother Paolo on the ed

What was accomplished by the now notorious meeting for a few beers at the White House at which President Obama and Vice-President Biden welcomed Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr and Cambridge police officer James Crowley Unlike the imbroglio over Rev Jeremiah Wright President Obama did n

The Obama adminstration yesterday nominated attorney Kenneth Feinberg to the newly created post of compensation czar from which he will help the government as Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said rein in pay practices that motivated executives to take excessive risks in pursuit of profit

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

Tomorrow leading Senators will hold a press conference with groups ranging from Human Rights Watch to the Chamber of Commerce to announce a renewed effort to lift or at least ameliorate the worst restrictions of the boycott of Cuba Catholics should applaud this effort When the economic boycott an

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