Former Vice President Richard Dick Cheney rsquo s interview on ABC over the weekend was fascinating Cheney has become one of the most vocal critics of the Obama administration unlike former President George W Bush who understands that such attacks are a task usually assigned to those who have n

A controversy is brewing over a series of billboards in Georgia that link abortion and race The billboards feature the face of a small black child with the words Black children are an endangered species above the photo and the website address TooManyAborted com below It is hard to imagine a mo

A top-secret Vatican delegation which everyone seemed to know about was in the UK last week to plan the details of the papal visit expected 16-19 September There ll be no official announcement of the itinerary until at least March but this is what has been sketched in Thurs 16 Pope received by

We do not know how to deal with death Archbishop Vincent Nichols of Westminster told a congregation of the sick yesterday But he added fear cannot be our guide He sees fear of death and of the pain and indignity which precede it as the real reason for the current drive to legalise assisted

The Washington Post s Magazine this weekend has a profile of Pat McGuire who has been President of Trinity College for twenty years As the article recalls at an event in 2007 Post chairman Donald Graham said of McGuire How often can you say of a university president nbsp Without her that

Cambridge MA One of the benefits of blogging regularly for America is that I can write what I want including pieces under somewhat arcane headings such as the one above a continuation of my series on my seminar this semester on devotional poetry in the south Indian Tamil language nbsp nbsp n