The moral dimension of the Wall Street meltdown took center stage yesterday first in Rome and later in Washington In Rome the Holy Father referred to the crisis in his opening remarks to the Synod of Bishops which began its deliberations yesterday Referring to worldly things Pope Benedict XVI s

Here s news from Fresno California courtesy of the local news station there about Father Geoffrey Farrow who opposed California s Proposition 8 and also revealed that he is gay in a homily on Sunday From the local media Father Geoffrey Farrow of the Saint Paul Newman Center in northeast

This weekend the McCain campaign began trying to change the conversation from the economic mess which has cost them dearly in the polls They announced they were taking the gloves off and were going to go after Barack Obama rsquo s character Of course it tells you something about the character

nbsp In the heat of an election with its emphasis on tactical maneuvers advertising buys and ground operations it is difficult to detect the broad stroke of history as she marches on Yet march she does and in the past two weeks the economic crisis has resulted in unimaginable levels of govern

nbsp Cambridge MA The past weeks have been a time of upheaval ranging from the hurricanes in the south to collapse on Wall Street plus the endless wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the still longer term disasters of our environmental crisis sporadic and systematized violence sometimes relig

Back in August I posted an item on the controversy over the disinterment of John Henry Newman the British nineteenth-century convert cardinal who is on the track to sainthood Almost as soon as special permission was obtained to move the body from its resting place outside Birmingham to a city chur