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The aging face of Ted Kennedy and the fresh face of Michelle Obama set the tone for the first night of the Democratic National Convention They had different roles befitting their different histories Sen Kennedy rsquo s task was to help unite the party and Mrs Obama rsquo s was to nbsp make her h

When Fr Roger Schutz founder of the ecumenical monastic community at Taiz eacute in south-east France attended the April 2005 funeral of Pope John Paul II he received Communion from Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger This raised a few eyebrows at the time -- Shutz was a Protestant pastor -- and gave ri

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Thanks to Greg Kandra over at The Deacon s Bench Greg is a deacon as well as a husband and ardent mediaphile who pointed out nbsp an profile in The Cleveland Plain Dealer of Sister Catherine Pinkerton of the Congregation of St Joseph nbsp nbsp The 86-year-old sister nbsp has been chosen to

The cause of human rights suffered a severe blow the past fortnight and no one will mention that fact in Denver at the Democratic Convention this week or at the Republican Convention in St Paul next week The issue did not come up in discussions of Sen Joe Biden rsquo s storied foreign policy cre