Who should play the leading role in rebuilding Haiti Why Haitians of course and yet few development organizations appear to be seeking local expertise In Voiceless in Haiti Brian J Stevens a former reporter for the Haitian Times provides distressing examples of the trend toward neglecting

David Gibson over at Politics Daily has a great piece on the uproar over the newly announced Mother Teresa stamp nbsp Seems that some are objecting to her smiling visage gracing our letters and postcards nbsp And they re objecting for good reason nbsp The U S Postal Service s list of requ

Fred Hiatt has an essay in this morning rsquo s Washington Post taking Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to task for his turn-around on the bipartisan Conrad-Gregg proposal to establish a bipartisan commission to recommend structural changes to the federal budget which like the Base Realignmen

Pope Benedict XVI has given the first official Vatican confirmation that he will be visiting the UK in September to beatify Cardinal Newman The full text of his address to the English and Welsh bishops at the conclusion of their ad limina visit is here He doesn t give any further details nor even

The Economist s brilliant cover of a haloed Steve Jobs carrying his new iPad made me think that -- pace the Vatican spokesman s nbsp warnings about obsessing with cyberspace nbsp - Apple s new gizmo could well transform church life Christians already use their smartphones and handhelds to read th

Father Ryan contends that the bishops were just “worn down” by the Holy See and so caved in. I disagree.