Walking through the city of New Orleans it is all anyone can hear Whether tourist or native everyone speaks of the oily creep washing ashore across the Gulf the unnatural disaster unfolding across a city that has barely begun to emerge from the devastation of Katrina and a similar alarming hori

As the international reaction to Monday s debacle on board the Mavi Marmara nbsp continues Egypt has opened the Rafa crossing to humanitarian relief goods for an unlimited time Naturally there has been a storm of coverage in Israel of the Israeli naval commandos version of riot control A fail

He who hates New York, hates the world

It has been described as the dark side of the good news said Rochester N Y s Father Kevin McKenna the arterial sclerosis of the mystical body Father McKenna was of course referring to the Canon Law of the Catholic Church a codification of church rules and regs that can be traced

Pope in strongest comments to date on sex abuse crisis Prepping a Sodano retirement And when is that visit to the Pope Celestine Shrine Mid-July From the NY Times ldquo The greatest persecution of the church does not come from the enemies outside but is born from sin inside the church

A lot of folks mouth agape may have been tracking the stock market for the last few days Some are eyeballing employment data looking for an indication that the nation may finally be resetting on more secure economic footing One economic-ish statistic which may have gone unnoticed today was track

The environmental catastrophe in the Gulf following the blow-out and sinking of Deepwater Horizon a BP oil drilling rig off Louisiana has its first representative avian face of disaster Unnamed but tagged number 1 a nbsp northern gannet rescued close to the spot where the Deepwater Horizon impl

Now I wasn t there and it s possible that these quotes from Catholic News Service can be taken out of context but the comments below betray a certain consistency with other recent episcopal responses to the physical and sexual abuse of Catholic children and the media and public reaction to same th

Rarely has the U S Catholic community been so publicly at odds over a social policy matter as the U S bishops and U S women religious communities were in the climax of the health care reform debate in March The bishops applying what can only be described as speculative interpretations of the pl

President Obama amplifying remarks of former Secretaty of State Condolezza Rice during the Bush administration and more recently by Vice President Biden and CENTCOM s General David Petreaus said something out loud that appears radical but is actually rather obvious resolving the long-running Mid