The key to changing minds and converting hearts is better access to information right nbsp Wouldn t everyone think just like me us if they weren t just so ignorant of the relevant data This interesting essay by Joe Keohane in the Boston Globe from July 11 suggests that the reverse is often the c

I rsquo ve been brooding since Ross Douthat named so well the anxiety that many have felt throughout the year that the Catholic Church rsquo s credibility has reached a historically significant tipping point See the discussion at Peter Steinfel s blog at Commonweal As I watched the media storm r

Until this summer rsquo s vacation I had never been to Chamonix a thin strip of a town in France rsquo s Savoy region that straddles a narrow river valley between the highest peaks in the Alps Chamonix is home to Europe rsquo s highest point mdash Mont Blanc Though for some reason I had expected

From a U S C C B press release WASHINGTON mdash Archbishop Donald W Wuerl of Washington Chairman of the Committee on Doctrine of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops USCCB responded to a clarification from the Vatican that raised the attempted ordination of a women to a ldquo mor

Long flights of massive stone steps that grace buildings of an earlier era ndash they offer opportunities for viewing the world below on city streets and sidewalks Several such flights stand out in cities like New York Their upper reaches provide not only a place to rest and perhaps enjoy a brown

They that go down to the sea in ships that do business in great waters These see the works of the LORD and his wonders in the deep Psalm 107 nbsp Reality television usually contains little that is real nbsp For some years ldquo The Real World rdquo the progenitor of many American