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It seems unfair that we Europeans can t vote in tomorrow s US election -- after all we ve followed every twist and turn of the campaign and it s not as if we ll be unaffected by the result Anxious for a substitute I ve written nbsp an article for the British Jesuit online journal Th

As part of the Year of St Paul America has produced a short comedy sketch about two teenagers in ancient Corinth who do a cable access TV show in which they interview Sts Paul and Peter about who is more Christian nbsp It s our first effort at a sketch-type piece and it stars our very own Re

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Marx s Capital is back on the bookshelves in Germany -- but the Marx in question is a Catholic bishop And while his book is a response to the crisis of capitalism the revolution he is calling for has more to do with Rerum Novarum 1891 than Das Kapital 1867 nbsp You ve got to hand it to th

One of the best aces in the hole for the Republican party has been their Get-Out-The-Vote GOTV operation In 2004 I was working on a congressional race and the final weekend an independent poll had the race tied but we lost by 8 points because the GOP deployed their famed 72-hour plan Karl Rove