I admit in my recent Of Many Things column that I sometimes give in to the temptation to tune out the sex abuse scandal As a Catholic journalist I am obligated to follow the story as it unfolds but when I can I look away So on Sunday morning as I open up The Week in Review forgive me if I

The new PM has just appeared outside No 10 Downing St to give a speech We are going to have hard and difficult things to do he said - meaning not just confronting a massive deficit but also leading a coalition government with the Liberal-Democrats for this we now know is what it will be Mu

Gordon Brown has tendered his resignation to the Queen bringing to a close 13 years of Labor rule The Conservative Party leader David Cameron is in Buckingham Palace as I write being commissioned by the Queen to form the next nbsp government As I begin this there is no prime minister but by

We feature two online conversations this week the first is with Clayton Sinyai a member of the Catholic Labor Network and the director of strategic campaigns for the Amalgamated Transit Union Speaking at a conference on Caritas in Veritate held at Princeton University Clayton explored what the p

Pope in strongest comments to date on sex abuse crisis Prepping a Sodano retirement And when is that visit to the Pope Celestine Shrine Mid-July From the NY Times ldquo The greatest persecution of the church does not come from the enemies outside but is born from sin inside the church

One of the measures for sound political decision-making is whether a given decision is being attacked equally from both ideological extremes The nomination of Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court is evidently a sound political decision by the President Better to say as sound as can be expected when