In a report released June 23 the Associated Press expanded on the corrections it issued on June 20 after America asked an AP media representative to respond to apparent inaccuracies in its reporting on the scandal swirling around the dispostion of deceased residents of a mothers and babies home in

As the World Cup continues to draw international attention, we might stop to ponder how God works for our good in all things, even sports.

After our June 18 report nbsp on baptismal certificates recorded in Tuam I queried the Associated Press regarding their stories on the Tuam Mothers and Babies Home Today AP issued the following correction Ireland-Children rsquo s Mass Graves storyDUBLIN AP mdash In stories published June 3 and

It was heartbreaking on June 12 to hear Mohammed Al Dulaimy an Iraqi reporter for McClatchy Newspapers speak on ldquo Democracy Now rdquo nbsp As Mosul a city of two million falls to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria or ISIS and Iraqi soldiers drop their arms and flee we hear that the mi

ldquo Babies born inside the institutions were denied baptism and if they died from the illness and disease rife in such facilities also denied a Christian burial rdquo It is a sentence unattributed to any source which repeats mdash either word for word or in a close approximation mdash in hu

It rsquo s always a strange experience to read about home while abroad mdash seeing my own country scrutinized from the outside and recognizing my pride and shame compete as my sense of self is shaped by that scrutiny As an Irishman I travelled to the United States with a sense of entitlement to t