The McCain campaign is being taken to task by the press because their decision to hammer Barack Obama for cancelling a trip to a military hospital is not only mean-spirited but also is untrue First Andrea Mitchell skewered a McCain surrogate on television and now the morning papers are joining the

My husband and I are movie freaks Our earliest dates were to on-campus movies in college We ll see all kinds of movies romance sci-fi adventure documentary foreign independent animated whatever Since we live in a small town with limited cinematic offerings our favorite way to spend a s

In his address to the Lambeth Conference in its final crucial days the Archbishop of Canterbury has outlined what he believes the world rsquo s Anglican bishops need to do in order to find the unity which will carry them through their current crisis It is a blinder of a speech and I detect two b

In 2004 the organization ldquo Catholic Answers rdquo distributed voting guides in many parishes They highlighted five ldquo non-negotiable rdquo items for voters to consider abortion euthanasia embryonic stem call research human cloning and gay marriage If you needed to find five wedge i

This morning rsquo s Washington Post contains another disturbing example of how we should not be addressing illegal immigration issues in this country In Virginia a little noticed state law has gone into effect that requires the state rsquo s jails to inform federal immigration officials about all

Snowmass Colorado As I start this reflection I am finishing my annual retreat this time at St Benedict rsquo s Abbey way up in the Rockies and not very far from Aspen where I rsquo ve spent the last 10 days Making an annual retreat is a wonderful thing both for spiritual reasons mdash