I don rsquo t read on the beach The beach is for long walks and quick plunges into the surf I am at Sea Bright the northernmost town on the Jersey Shore for two weeks and I brought Pat Conroy rsquo s My Reading Life with me perfect company as I sit in the front room or on the balcony overloo

First it was the the market -- the collapse of 2008 then the state -- the MPs expenses scandal Now comes the third great crisis of trust in British institutions this time in the third estate The discovery of the rot at the heart of journalism -- yesterday Rupert Murdoch was forced to shut dow

The archdiocese of Boston has suffered greatly since the sexual-abuse crisis surfaced in 2002 nbsp Newspapers have published dozen of articles the Boston Globe won the Pultizer Prize for Public Service in 2003 for its coverage and commentated on the repercussions orginating from a system most cal

Ever since the Second Vatican Council spoke of the universal call to holiness, there has been a move to recognize more lay men and women as saints as models of sanctity for lay Catholics.

This week the L A Times ran a story about the makeshift shrines to Our Lady of Guadalupe that populate Los Angeles The article is a moving testament to popular devotion and to the attempt to make everyday places into sites of contact with God These mini-grottoes have often served as focal points

U S cities have experienced a discernible decline in the number of African Americans who call them home and leading the way out have been African American parents with small children Decades ago the Great Migration out of the poverty and discrimination they experienced in the U S south brought hi