Timing isn rsquo t everything but it is something And the world has shrunk so much that nowadays an avalanche of important events seems to fall on us with increasing regularity if not all the time To complexity and speed we should add a third challenging aspect of modern life simultaneity Con

A thank you to the nuns and a story relevant to child psychology today nbsp nbsp nbsp Wesley Van Ornum was born December 14 1914--a year when an assassin rsquo s bullet began a war as brutal as any where death came by mustard gas instead of suicide bombers Soon my father would experience

Yesterday Pope Benedict XVI nbsp called sexual abuse ldquo truly terrifying rdquo nbsp nbsp In his frank comments to reporters aboard the plane en route to Portugal he seemed to rebut curial officials who have sought to portray the crisis as somehow generated from the outside nbsp The greate

Deal Hudson has decided to join the recriminations against Sister Carol Keehan DC of the Catholic Health Association for her support of the health care overhaul that is now the law of the land Deal Hudson of course was the GOP rsquo s go-to guy during the Bush years and he made his opposition

Last week for four days I was in Kananaskis Alberta about 90 minutes from Calgary I was speaking at the annual Blueprints conference an extraordinarily well-coordinated gathering for principals of Catholic schools and their trustees I returned to the close of the Fordham school year utterl

Honest talk from the archbishop of Dublin on sex abuse Why am I discouraged nbsp The most obvious reason is the drip-by-drip never-ending revelation about child sexual abuse and the disastrous way it was handled nbsp nbsp There are still strong forces which would prefer that the truth did not