Wal-Mart squeezed Saks full-priced selling at record levels From NY Times Wal-Mart the country rsquo s biggest retailer said it had posted a quarterly increase in sales at stores open at least a year after nine consecutive quarters of declines in that important measure But its third-quarter p

For those interested I have posted my brief account with some pictures here TB

The first helicopter flew over my Jesuit residence in Berkeley this morning at 7am by noon their drone will be a reminder to everyone for miles of today rsquo s planned ldquo Day of Action rdquo and 2 pm rally by the ldquo Occupy Cal rdquo movement on UC Berkeley rsquo s campus A general strik

From Criterio magazine via Mirada Global It is the 50th anniversary of John XXIII rsquo s social encyclical Mater et magistra published on the 70th anniversary of Rerum Novarum 1891 the document where Leon XIII established the foundations of the Social Doctrine of the Church Within a fundament

Between November 10 and November 13 2011 the Knights and Dames of the Order of Malta American Association held their annual meeting in New York City Events included four Masses a general meeting discussions of the Lourdes Committee and Medical Committee and a well-received talk by Father Jim

nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp The Jesuit playwright Bill Cain S J has been on quite a roll It had been almost twwnty years between Cain s first play Stand-Up Tragedy and his next Equivocation which premiered at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in 2009 and then went on to productions in Los Angeles