Add this to the list of possible omens for tomorrow rsquo s election Neil Diamond is about to release a new album The gravely voiced soft rock sensation will release ldquo Dreams rdquo on Election Day Mere coincidence Perhaps Yet Diamond rsquo s anthology has provided an uncanny soundtrack

Within a fortnight of the end of the Middle-East Synod there is news out of Baghdad which illustrates what the Iraqi bishops were saying in Rome that Christians and their churches are easy targets for the foreign terror gangs in Iraq Zenit reports that Syrian Catholic Archbishop Georges Casmoussa

Here s a good Halloween topic witches and witchcraft An historian at Edinburgh University scotches some myths at the Guardian comment pages nbsp Most witches were executed in the 16th and 17th centuries There were about 50 000 of them A quarter of them were men Julian Goodare warns us against

A reflection from Barnabite priest Umberto Palma Orellana The miners have become a good brand a brand everybody wants to register for their own benefit and exploitation Their lives those too human existences haven rsquo t mattered before they don rsquo t now and won rsquo t in the future eith

Believe it or not I m a member of a theater company the Labyrinth Theater Company who I first got to know when they asked me to help them with a play called The Last Days of Judas Iscariot written by Stephen Adly Guirgis and produced at nbsp New York s nbsp Public Theater in 2004 nbsp In an