Texas Governor Rick Perry has surged in polls since he announced his candidacy for the GOP nomination and he has come under increased scrutiny especially with his shoot-from-the-hip verbal style Shortly before he announced Perry s Evangelicalism was widely examined when he hosted a massive pr

The investigation into unusual spikes in child deaths at Catholic institutions for the mentally disabled in the Netherlands during the mid-1950s now includes two facilities St Joseph s for boys where 34 residents died between 1952 and 55 and St Anna s for mentally disabled women and girls whe

Arriving in a turbulent Madrid before another major tanking of global markets Pope Benedict XVI shared some thoughts on the role of the economy which he suggested could benefit from some sound investment in ethics futures The economy doesn t function with market self-regulation but needs an ethi

Archbishop Dolan of New York has suggested that it would be a good thing to restore distinctive Catholic religious practices nbsp He praises the bishops of England who have reintroduced meatless Fridays a penitential practice which once set Catholics apart from other groups The argument is made

The BBC reports that otter have now been restored to every county in England No word yet on success of Mole Rat Toad and Badger programs

ldquo Can the Middle Class Be Saved rdquo mdash Don Peck rsquo s thought-provoking article in the latest September issue of the Atlantic mdash does more than raise the question and supply the history and patterns that caused him to formulate it in the first place It is no secret that for 30 ye