Can the emerging Obama Doctrine initiate a genuine change in U.S. Mideast policy?

In moderation a drink can be a help to fellowship. Used irresponsibly, alcohol ruins lives.

Once critical of extrajudicial killings, Americans have lost their inhibitions when it comes to Islamic terrorists.

The continued fragility of the organized labor movement could doom the country to further economic distress.

One wonders what Gandhi or St. Francis of Assisi might have advised Father Ray Bourgeois.

Bishops and other church leaders need to speak with clarity about the budget as a moral document.