Last week I threw out my files on Osama Bin Laden rsquo s death mdash which I am more prone to call a murder or an assassination mdash because new and perhaps bigger questions keep leaping up at us and I have to make room in both my head and in my files and desk space for new problems

nbsp From my living room window I see the flag waving in the VFW park above the nbsp monument honoring the war dead nbsp On Memorial Day we hear the rifles shots followed by taps nbsp In the same park our local peace group meets regularly to protests against our country rsquo s current wars I

From the Jesuit magazine Streven via Mirada Global Over recent decades it has become clear that women play important roles in the use and management of natural resources They are usually the ones responsible for the provision of water and biomass energy for the household It seems logical that the

A study released today by the Pew Research Center rsquo s Forum on Religion amp Public Life reports that more than 2 2 billion people nearly a third of the world rsquo s total population live in countries where either government restrictions on religion or ldquo social hostilities involving rel

LONDON Last night there were more buildings aflame in the city than at any time since World War II Some 6 000 police were unable to cope as across the capital -- and in other cities in the UK -- gangs of hooded youths took to the streets in copycat riots torching and looting in the third night o

After declining to recant his very public support for women s ordination Father Roy Bourgeois has been dismissed by the Maryknolls The N Y Times reports that he was notified via a letter signed by the superior general and the general secretary of the Maryknoll order in the United States which sa