Father Drew Christiansen s recent Of Many Things included a sentence deeply relevant to the psychology theology and politics of conflict resolution ldquo International lawyers and human rights advocates are often adamant that those who violated the peace need to be punished whereas profession

Recent Catholic convert and likely Republican presidential contender Newt Gingrich is profiled in the latest issue of Esquire magazine with his second of three wife giving her first interview since the couple rsquo s very public and very dramatic divorce It rsquo s the kind of salaciously sensat

When President Obama spoke to the Disabled American Veterans in Atlanta Ga on August 1 reporters scanned his words closely for news of the Iraq war Would he signal any change in policy give hints about when and how the troops scheduled to leave would actually leave That turned out to be the l

Confession I am not generally in the business of writing movie reviews especially for films that have yet to be released and which I probably will not see And maybe this post will confirm that I should not quit my day job So for more professional opinions of Eat Pray Love check out The New Yor

It shouldn t be a surprise to learn that Pope Benedict XVI s decision to refuse the resignations of Dubln auxillary bishops Eamonn Walsh and Bishop Raymond Field has unleashed an outpouring of outrage in Ireland The bishops had resigned at the urging of Dublin Archbishop Diarmuid Martin who demand

The New York Times fleshes out the background of the folks behind the controversial Cordoba House perhaps itself a poor choice as it harkens back whatever planners contemporary intentions to Iberia s Islamic caliphate and deconstructs their efforts as a case study in poor public relations T