ROME Friday afternoon and Saturday morning saw the final speeches of the Synod participants bringing to a close the first part of the deliberations here in which bishops and other participants have a chance to air what they think important This morning they discuss their report after the discus

I watched Waiting for Superman this weekend read America s Raymond A Schroth s review here and found the film a thought provoking couple hours in which the director Davis Guggenheim examines the darker side of American public education a system where so many children are failed by schools that

Cambridge MA Life is particularly hectic these days at Harvard since not only are we in the middle of the semester mdash a happy but exhausting time and the business of the semester multiplies mdash but two other factors impinge on my time and energy First there is the American Academy of

The Anglican Bishop of Fulham in London who heads the leading grouping of Anglo-Catholic priests in the UK called Forward in Faith has announced that he will join an ordinariate once one had been created in the UK possibly next year Speaking at the FiF assembly yesterday in London he said he wo

Today is Blog Action Day 2010 the action global bloggers are invited to take is to promote awareness of global water issues its scarcity its contamination its political and strategic significance in pressure points like Darfur and at the Israeli-Palestinian stand off According to the U N a

A couple interesting posts on the recent rash of gay suicide victims across the nation see In All Things reactions here and here First openly gay Fort Worth TX city councilor Joel Burns made a tearful plea for gay youth to avoid the temptation of despair that comes along with bullying and hatr