The truck lurches and weaves with every rut and gully on the bush trail mdash and there are many of them mdash in slow but steady progress through to the outlying villages around Bossangoa The day before two large lorries broke down repeatedly during the same exercise through these small villages

Does the canonization process include ldquo a kind of church sponsored blasphemy rdquo James Carroll claimed in the Boston Globe that requiring two healing miracles for sainthood ldquo implies that God actively declines to intervene in countless other cases rdquo And this ldquo effectively ma

Coming from such a large and imposing figure the soft voice of the general is a surprise One has to lean in and listen closely to hear Mohamed-Moussa Dhaffane speak sharing the high drama of the moment in something close to a whisper Acting President of the Seleka in the Central African Republic

As a defense of teaching about business in Catholic universities ldquo Noble Vocations rdquo by Joseph J Dunn 3 24 is intelligent and clear The title of the article a quote from Pope Francis rsquo apostolic exhortation ldquo The Joy of the Gospel rdquo is a good one It underlines an o

It has been years since I have seen a film as dazzling beautiful and challenging as Patrice Chereau rsquo s Queen Margot It tell the story of the 16th-century French ldquo wars of religion rdquo which raised to a bloody pitch with the Saint Bartholomew rsquo s Day Massacre 1572 when for vari

Mohamed Bomassa was saved today by his baseball cap ldquo Pour la Paix rdquo it reads he holds it up for a photo ldquo This protected me rdquo he says explaining that for a Muslim youth crossing Bangui the capital city of the Central African Republic can be a fatal experience these days