The Obama administration has decided to repeal a last-minute Bush administration regulation granting wide protections to health care workers from being fired or otherwise penalized for a religiously based unwillingness to perform acts they find morally objectionable The decision is regrettable even

It was an apology of sorts -- but not of the sort to make amends The Holocaust-denying schismatic British bishop whose rehabilitation by the Vatican sparked an international row apologised last night for remarks in which he denied the scale of the Nazis genocidal campaign against the Jews The a

God is in the details is one of those strange aphorisms that has longer legs than it should I do not suspect to find God going through the details of President Obama rsquo s newly minted budget But it is clear that what one will find therein is the other half of the title of his book If his c

Might the shortly-to-retire Archbishop of Westminster sit in the House of Lords -- the first Catholic bishop since the Reformation to do so The question has been raised in The Tablet which this week interviews the prime minister Gordon Brown and finds him open to the idea So when the cardinal r

Ash Wednesday in my stepmother rsquo s Alzheimer rsquo s complex saw twenty or so residents aged 80 to 105 sitting in the Solarium in blank silence Surely here we needed no ashes to ldquo Remember man that thou art dust and to dust thou shall return rdquo Every patient in this locked facility

The Supreme Court waded into the murky waters of the Establishment Clause yesterday and reached a surprising unanimous verdict In Utah a town park holds many monuments one of them to the Ten Commandments A fringe religious group called Summum that combines elements of pseudo-Christian Gnosticis