New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd continues her rant against a president she characterizes as an effete out of touch elitist who is willfully ignorant of the plights of the common person The column Myth and Madness begins as a discussion about Delaware s GOP nominee for Senate the much mali

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A short while ago at 6 45 pm UK time Pope Benedict XVI s Alitalia plane Shepherd One threaded its way into the lead skies above Birmingham Airport back to Rome after a brief departure ceremony in which the prime minister David Cameron told him that he had challenged the whole country to s

To compliment Austen Ivereigh s superb reporting over the last few days on the beatification of Cardinal John Henry Newman this video of the beatification ceremony which includes some of the pope s remarks on the newest Blessed nbsp

COFTON PARK BIRMINGHAM ENGLAND The Mass of the Beatification of Cardinal Newman has just ended Newman is beatified This was the Pope s final large-scale event and it was another triumph He has not put a foot wrong and the newspapers this morning are all wondering how he did it By our apo

BIRMINGHAM England Bill Kilgallon chairman of the National Catholic Safeguarding Commission of England and Wales gave a briefing to journalists shortly before the beginning of Mass here about the meeting which took place yesterday -- the first of its kind -- between the Pope and safeguarding