To be with the Rev John Flynn was to walk with faith Seriously mdash he would cross the streets around Saint Martin of Tours parish in the Bronx barely looking to see if any cars were barreling down the way How he never got hit is a minor miracle Yet whenever I accompanied him on his regular walk

This year more than any other I can recall the pundits predict that the debates can be decisive in the presidential election James Fallows in The Atlantic September made the case that Gov Mitt Romney was an excellent debater and that President Obama may be in for a surprise I watched nearly a

NPR reporter Sonari Glinton recalls how Sr Rosemary Brennan the principal of St Philip Neri Catholic school in Chicago helped to show students how Jesus related to them on an episode of This American Life Sonari Glinton tells the story of how a Catholic nun teaches an entire school on Chicago s

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The Atlantic looks at the Vatican rsquo s attempt to get control of its media incompetence examining how it handled the 2010 speech that angered some in the Muslim world continued revelations of clergy sexual abuse and most recently the so-called Vati-leaks scandal From the article In this en