Today Oprah Winfrey signs off after 25 years on daytime television It has been by any estimation an astonishing career In episodes 4561 Emmys 48 guests 30 000 -- including at least one Jesuit gifts given books promoted money made -- even in that most unusual of daytime television cat

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As anticipated the General Assembly of Caritas Internationalis under way in Rome this week has turned out to be a defining moment in the organisation s 60-year-old history as one leading Vatican official after another has sought to tie it more closely to the Holy See and the Church s mission ad ge

Much talk these days swirls around the impending crisis over the national debt ceiling That rsquo s certainly true within the friendly mostly confines of America rsquo s Web site It rsquo s too bad there rsquo s no painless way around the debt crisis It looks like the U S middle and upper clas

This post is a letter of qualified recommendation for a very funny smart and frequently profane set of conversations that happen on the WTF podcast I was not a podcast-kind-of-guy until I heard this show hosted by the comedian Marc Maron Twice a week he posts interviews recorded in his ga

This is part of a series of blog posts called Readings As a subscriber to 15 periodicals I will share what I discover and maybe introduce you to a new author nbsp Inevitably the way news cycles operate while we were looking the other way for several weeks obsessed with the killing of Osama