The events at Penn State have properly called for an examination of conscience from the university s Board of Trustees which apparently hoping Joe Paterno would resign in light of the revelations emerging in recent days was forced to fire the college football legend One can only hope it provokes

Forbes has named its 2011 world s most powerful people Number 7 goes to Pope Benedict XVI Not too shabby but a slight comedown from 2010 when he was up two spots at 5 Ranked at number one was Barack Obama followed by Russian Prime Minister Vladamir Putin The number three spot went to Chinese

The British empire took a giant leap forward into the 19th century today by allowing that royals will not be barred from the throne merely because they married a good gracious Catholic Catholics of course remain barred from the throne itself because of the difficulty and all that rot of seating

As President Obama confirmed today a final drawdown of U S troops from Iraq by Christmas Tucson Bishop Gerald Kicanis was himself returning from a brief pastoral tour of duty in Baghdad He shared his impressions with us and offers a poignant reminder that while the experience in Iraq may be comin

Here s more for my reality once again outpacing satire folder h t to David Gibson at dotcommonweal and The Lede The president s recent decision to commit 100 U S military advisors to train Ugandan Central African Republic and Congolese troops so they can God willing finally put an end to th

The New York Times is reporting that Kansas City Bishop Robert Finn and the diocese he leads have been indicted by a county grand jury on a charge of failure to report suspected child abuse in the case of a priest who had been accused of taking lewd photographs of young girls nbsp The Times rep

Searching for the invisible suburban casualties of the Great Recession.

I stumbled upon this Washington Post series of photos of a Colorado family being evicted H T to Greg Kandra s The Deacon s Bench and have not been able to stop thinking about this family and what they are going through a tragedy being replicated at thousands of sites around the country I don t k

Steve Jobs had a remarkable life An adopted child his biological sister incredibly is the novelist Mona Simpson college drop-out and Arab American he created perhaps the greatest comeback story in American corporate history Before he became a visionary whose fine taste and ruthless perfectio

A couple of CNS stories are worth reading today before we close out for the week In the first Tommaso Di Ruzza desk officer at the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace OK I m not sure what that means either I m picturing someone in a naval uniform attempts to dispel the continuing confus