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A small item from this month s Esquire magazine In a piece about a potential scandal on television s The Price is Right the author Chris Jones describes some of the show s changes He writes Even when Drew Carey replaced Bob Barker mdash the show s own version of Vatican II mdash he rocked

While reading the New York Times this weekend I could not help but notice that at least five different articles dealt with creating a kind of cultural philosophical or religious permission-giving for taking time away from electronic connectivity in everyday life Is this a noteworthy constell

In his article for our special issue on Religion and International Affairs Thomas F Farr argues that the United States must be more vigorous in its promotion of religious liberty abroad In the interest of continuing the conversation we asked Prof Farr to respond to a few questions sparked by th

The Vatican and its defenders can argue that so closely associating women s ordination and sexual abuse does not make them the same But Catholics in secularizing countries many of whom understand that the form of the message is part of its content will be at liberty to be critical -- when they

An interesting piece in the New York Times magazine about the US State Department s efforts to modernize diplomacy through the use of social networking From the article the State Department was still boxed into the world of communiqu eacute s diplomatic cables and slow government-to-government