Cambridge MA I was at first relieved when Jim Martin rsquo s typically excellent entry ldquo Catholic Bloggers Aim to Purge rdquo was pointed out to me to realize that whatever attacks are made against me by the Purgers they are so mild that I do not notice them But then I was alarmed to re

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In the Midwest there are tornadoes but last month a storm microburst one of politics commanded pages of Chicago rsquo s newspapers spewing winds across the country to Washington DC where Obama rsquo s Chief of Staff resigned to seek the mayor rsquo s office Mayor Richard M Daley Daley II

Bill McGarvey the talented editor of Bustedhalo com is moving on

It has been on the back of many minds since the Jan 12 earthquake took perhaps a quarter of a million lives and left about 2 million Haitians homeless when would the next crisis begin this one emerging from the dangerous conditions in temporary tent cities now home to thousands of dislocated fami

The Public Religion Research Institute released a poll that shows four in 10 Americans say that their churches present a negative view of homosexuality and finds that Catholics were the most critical of their own churches messages on nbsp homosexuality Further Only five out of 100 people ga