I am currently reading and inspired and challenged by Mary Gail Frawley-O Dea s remarkable psychoanalytic study of the Catholic abuse crisis Perversion of Power Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church Vanderbilt University Press 2007 Many America readers will recall that Frawley-O Dea was select

All eyes will be properly set on South Sudan in the coming days as voters in the South participate in a referendum that will likely mean the succession of Christian traditional South Sudan from the Muslim North Here s a recent editorial An alert from M eacute decins Sans Fronti egrave res nbsp pa

Our excellent discussion nbsp on nbsp standardized tests and evaluating educational systems in foreign countries got me to thinking about the quality of teaching both in the United States in general and in our Catholic school systems in particular In the U S A George Bush has been left behind an

The story of Ted Williams a golden voiced homeless man from Columbus Ohio has captured the imagination and compassion of the nation Discovered by a reporter for the Columbus Dispatch panhandling by the side of the road Williams became an overnight YouTube sensation after he demonstrated his uni

As the baby boom generation retires and worries about the viability of Social Security worsen the U S federal government is keeping an eye on the number of young people defined as those under age 20 The latest government estimate for the last decade shows that the number of U S young people wou

A short clip on NPR this morning discussed a new edition of Mark Twain rsquo s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn put out by NewSouth Books that will replace the ldquo n-word rdquo with ldquo slave rdquo Apparently the former term has decreased readership due to censorship in public schools an