Update nbsp Kicanas issues a statement on Dolan s election In what can only be described as an upset N Y Archbishop Tim Dolan has been elected the President of the U S Conference of Catholic Bishops defeating Tucson Bishop Gerald Kicanas According to past practice as U S C C B vice president

Who speaks for the church came up both as an action item for the fall general assembly of the U S Conference of Catholic Bishops and in Cardinal Francis George rsquo s final address as U S C C B president The bishops will be deciding tomorrow on a proposal to reassess levels of authority of churc

ldquo A catastrophe rdquo is how Samir Sumaida rsquo ie Iraq rsquo s ambassador to the United States described the Oct 31 attack on Baghdad rsquo s Syriac Catholic Cathedral Fifty-two were killed along with six attackers and 78 were wounded when Iraqi Security Forces stormed church offices wh

My second son has been having a hard time of late, and so have I, with him.

The only Christians who remain in Iraq are those too old or too poor to attempt to escape many of the Iraqi refugees I interviewed last September in Amman Jordan assured me They said after years of threats kidnappings bombings and murders they would never return had no reason to return would n

One of the gallants who put the now infamous beat-down on that askin-fer-it professional agitator from moveon org has been outed by other members of the Tea Party apparently appalled by his liberal use of force in freely expressing his concern for Rand Paul s personal safety The blogosphere is poi

It has been on the back of many minds since the Jan 12 earthquake took perhaps a quarter of a million lives and left about 2 million Haitians homeless when would the next crisis begin this one emerging from the dangerous conditions in temporary tent cities now home to thousands of dislocated fami

The latest round of document releases from WikiLeaks nbsp regarding the Iraq War will be getting a lot of attention through the weekend rightly so It s too bad that will probably mean a report from California s Bay Citizen will probably be overlooked hat tip to Truthout A good portion of the nb

Today is Blog Action Day 2010 the action global bloggers are invited to take is to promote awareness of global water issues its scarcity its contamination its political and strategic significance in pressure points like Darfur and at the Israeli-Palestinian stand off According to the U N a

Has David Letterman been hanging out with Bread for the World s David Beckmann Maybe the Daves were switched by mischievous CBS executives Who can say but after apparently going on a lengthy rant about one of the Seven Deadlies that is particularly popular within U S borders while poor Rachel Ra