During the past month readers of America followed the pre-execution legal maneuvering to stop the Commonwealth of Virginia from carrying out the death sentence on a woman named Teresa Lewis Lewis was arguably mentally retarded and initially received poor legal representation her case was later tak

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Culture editor James Martin S J visited Milwaukee recently for the Archdiocese s annual Pallium Lecture sponsored by Archbishop Jerome Listecki While there he spoke with the NPR nbsp show Lake Effect on Ignatian spirituality Jesuit life and the role of humor in the church Listen here nb

See update above DFL Ad Not Anti-Catholic nbsp Just Confusing Want a real example of anti-Catholicism Here it is courtesy of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party apparently in reponse to Archbishop nbsp John Nienstedt s mailing of 400 000 DVDs in opposition to same-sex marriage H t

Reporting in Rome on it for a week and having read almost every word to have come out of it in the course of its 14 days I simply cannot recognize the description of the Mid-East Synod ending last weekend which was made on Sunday by the Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon complained that