As noted below yesterday Cardinal Schoenborn of Vienna met with Pope Benedict at the Vatican Rocco called the meeting Vienna carpeted indicating that Schoenborn was crawled on the Vatican carpet for remarks he made previously directed against Cardinal Sodano rsquo s handling of the clergy sex a

One of the things I ve learned over the last couple years of writing blog posts is how frequently I must pause to ask myself how I as a parent am going to present a certain issue My hesitations are almost always around the ways I will present in word and image matters about women and sexuality

As a statement of intention Make Poverty History is hard to argue with And it has proven over the course of years to be a rallying cry for people concerned about poverty in our world particularly in the developing world nbsp Yet the concrete goals being set by this popular catchphrase are har

From the AP VATICAN CITY AP -- The Vatican on Monday admonished a leading cardinal for having publicly criticized the former Vatican No 2 for his handling of clerical abuse cases In a statement the Vatican said only the pope can make such accusations against a cardinal not another so-called p

Associate Editor Kevin Clarke appears in an upcoming issue wearing his reporter s hat The Last Days of St Vincent s See also his video-slideshow A Requiem for St Vincent s But this week online we asked him to try out some different skills in a review of a new documentary on HBO Gasland

A colleague and I were recently discussing at a conference how in certain contexts we answer the question What do you do It rsquo s a simple and common question asked by new acquaintances old friends family colleagues and others And living in D C it rsquo s almost always the first thing