Former Boomtown Rat Sir Bob Geldof don t like Wednesday s report from the BBC alleging that essentially all of the money raised during 1985 s Live Aid Band Aid rock extravaganzas mdash including the big cash generated by best-selling tunes Do they know it s Christmas We are the world associa
St Edmund Campion SJ has been nbsp honored at the Church of St Mary the Virgin at Oxford as reported by Mark Silk I m happy to report that St Mary s now commemmorates Campion and 21 other men of his era with a plaque that reads at the top REMEMBER THE MARTYRS OF THE REFORMATION BOTH CATHOLI
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The ethics controversy surrounding Congressman Charles Rangel until yesterday the powerful Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee is yet another in a long line of incidents that prove what really needs no proving Power corrupts The cases are rooted in the psychology of power and they are
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Conservatives are permitted to define whatever standards of intellectual consistency for themselves that they wish But it is important in gauging the political sincerity of a movement and its leaders to determine how they fulfill the standards they have set for themselves It is one thing to criti