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It s nice to be reminded that the U S church has a position on peace we re all for it BTW and that the U S and Russia still have much unfinished business related to the end of the Cold War and the final status of our absurd nuclear weapons stockpiles Here s one time-ordinary of the U S Archdi

A well-briefed media-trained speakers bureau of Catholics is being set up in the UK in advance of Benedicts XVI s visit in September Declaration of interest I m one of those behind it Catholic Voices is a project of the Catholic Union a venerable institution created in the late nineteenth cent

Bipartisanship has a better name than it should As often as not it yields an anodyne moderation that is unequal to the tasks facing the nation Last year President Obama scaled back the stimulus bill in hopes of attracting GOP support he got none when we now realize the stimulus needed to be l

Gaza might not be the only thing under siege in the Middle East Israeli democracy has taken a fair number of hits recently A Zionist student organization Im Tirtzu partly bankrolled by the Christian Dispensationalist-Zionist and non-pal to Catholics John Hagee has issued an inflammatory repor