Michael Sean Winters' 'Left at the Altar,' reviewed

Barack Obama is the only American politician who can fill a stadium as he did last night in Denver By moving the venue from the smaller indoor arena to the massive outdoor one he did three things First he invited and received comparisons with John F Kennedy who accepted the Democratic nod i

Anglican Archbishop Calls for Mutual Responsibility The spiritual head of the worldwide Anglican Communion, Archbishop Rowan Williams of Canterbury, called for moratoriums on the blessing of same-sex unions, the ordination of openly gay people and naming bishops for disgruntled Anglicans in other ch

What will you do to reduce the number of abortions?

Berlusconi’s election campaign promised a severe clampdown on “Roma, clandestine immigrants and criminals”—it was one of the main reasons for his election.

Will World Youth Day Be a Wake-up Call? In what is often seen as one of the most intensely secular nations in the world, Australia received a wake-up call: the faith of the church on public display over the weeklong celebrations of World Youth Day. For young Catholics used to seeing a steady annual

Missing from most of the national immigration debate has been the humanitarian aspects of the migration phenomenon.

In 2004 the organization ldquo Catholic Answers rdquo distributed voting guides in many parishes They highlighted five ldquo non-negotiable rdquo items for voters to consider abortion euthanasia embryonic stem call research human cloning and gay marriage If you needed to find five wedge i

This morning rsquo s Washington Post contains another disturbing example of how we should not be addressing illegal immigration issues in this country In Virginia a little noticed state law has gone into effect that requires the state rsquo s jails to inform federal immigration officials about all

What you thought of Barack Obama rsquo s speech in Berlin depends largely on what you thought of him beforehand nbsp nbsp If you have been swept up by Obamamania the specter of 200 000 Germans cheering an American waving American flags without so much as a whiff of protest is such a happy co