The Times of London is reporting that in preparation for the not-too-far-off canonization of Venerable John Henry Newman his remains are to be ldquo disinterred rdquo and placed on view in order that the faithful may venerate them or more precisely him nbsp ldquo The Vatican has ordered t

My previous 1 choice for Obama rsquo s vice-presidential pick Sen Jim Webb has taken himself out of consideration And none of the other choices possess the combination of national security experience bipartisan credentials and experienced winning a key swing state that Webb brought to the ta

There is a story in the Independent newspaper -- not normally one to run a religious ldquo exclusive rdquo -- that the Catholic Church rsquo s policy faced with the Anglican meltdown is to do what it can to help Dr Rowan Williams to hold it together nbsp ldquo Pope rides to Rowan s rescue rdq

The airwaves have been filled with moral posturing to an extraordinary degree as a result of the New Yorker magazine rsquo s cover art depicting Sen Barack Obama dressed in traditional Muslim garb fist-bumping his wife who is sporting an AK-47 standing in the Oval Office with a picture of Osama

As he had on his trip to the United States in April Pope Benedict XVI addressed reporters on his recent flight to Sydney Australia about the sex abuse crisis in the country that he is about to visit nbsp Once again even before landing he takes up the issue mdash of particular import as he be

Not everyday do we associate New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg rsquo s name with poverty The man is worth some 11 billion dollars having made his fortune first at Salomon Brothers and later his own firm Bloomberg L P But yesterday he proposed a new way to measure poverty that is worthy of much