nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp My dad s funeral Mass was said last summer in a church that he had not often attended After he was buried my mother moved to a smaller house in another town In November she got a letter from the parish where the funeral had been inviting our family to a special
Observers at the Copenhagen climate conference from Caritas Internationalis were pretty underwhelmed by commitments from European states to help poor nations in the developing world mitigate unnatural disasters due to global warming calling the purported new commitments a wind-powered bluff In a
Apparently a thoroughly devastating report on clerical sexual and physical abuse of Irish children and attempts to cover it up by the Irish hierarchy has been gruesome enough to draw an unprecedented response from Pope Benedict XVI Benedict met with senior Irish bishops and high-ranking members of
When it rains it pours Just when I finish a blogpost about the - hmmmm how to put this gently ndash the unspeakably stupid remarks being made about President Obama rsquo s speech yesterday in Oslo I find an even grosser example of intellectual idiocy over at Huffington Post There Barbara Com
The lack of basic knowledge of the traditions of Western thought is a sore affliction in anyone but in people who are paid to write about important events this lack is criminal The commentary on President Obama rsquo s Nobel lecture in Oslo yesterday has hit new lows in this regard Consider the
A Gaza-born resident of the West Bank and Bethlehem University student will not be allowed to complete her college education with just two-months to go before her graduation after the Israeli High Court of Justice accepted the Israeli Defense Forces decision to expel the young woman in October B