The cover of this week s Economist above says it well This is America s image today a culture wherein the solution to any problem from an imagined insult to a paranoid fear of big government is resolved at gun point nbsp Blame movies and TV crime shows where the heroes and bad guys all tote

You ve probably read about Fr Alberto Cutie s new book Dilemma in which he recounts his leaving of the Catholic priesthood to marry and his subsequent joining of the Episcopal Church nbsp The Diane Rehm Show invited me on this morning to speak about celibacy along with Fr Cutie whose book is

The Archdiocese of Boston released a new non-discrimination policy for Catholic schools last week The Boston Globe reports The Archdiocese of Boston under fire from all sides after a parochial school withdrew an admissions offer to the child of a lesbian couple yesterday released a new Catholi

Archbishop Vincent Nichols concluding this morning s hugely long and solemn ordination Mass allowed himself an inpromptu remark This was an extraordinary moment he told a packed congregation of 2 000 at Westminster Cathedral adding This is how church history is made The liturgy was unexce

The good news out of Tucson is that Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords continues to improve Doctors report that she has been making spontaneous movements Trauma surgeon Dr Peter Rhee told reporters at the University Medical Center in Tucson She is getting better every day She was able to actua

Readers of the print edition will be familiar with what we at America call the OMT mdash Of Many Things the weekly column that runs on page two of the magazine The OMT is venue for the editors particulary the editor-in-chief to comment on current events in a less formal sometimes more opinion