This morning the Holy Father named Father J Augustine DiNoia O P as the new Secretary at the Congregation for Divine Worship Father DiNoia will be elevated to the dignity of an archbishop and has been assigned the titular see of Oregon City Most bishops and archbishops reside in their own dioce

Yesterday a two-member Elections Board yes two-member sometimes you can rsquo t make this stuff up ruled that the citizens of the District of Columbia have no right to vote on whether or not to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other jurisdictions Whatever you think of the issue of gay

An event like the Iranian elections shows just how myopic American media and news agencies have become With financial conditions requiring most news agencies to abandon the extensive foreign desks they once had our ability to know what is going on let alone to make sense of it is dwindling fast

The family of Steven Johns the security guard at the Holocaust museum who was killed by a fanatic anti-Semite and racist on Wednesday deserves a thorough investigation into their beloved rsquo s murder So does the family of Dr George Tiller killed by a fanatic anti-abortion activist two weeks a

The Obama adminstration yesterday nominated attorney Kenneth Feinberg to the newly created post of compensation czar from which he will help the government as Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said rein in pay practices that motivated executives to take excessive risks in pursuit of profit

Sometimes a headline and a by-line just don rsquo t match Yesterday at Salon com there appeared an article entitled Obama rsquo s poor choice for faith leader written by Frances Kissling the founder of Catholics for Choice Now asking Ms Kissling to assess the choice of a faith leader is a

It is election day in Virginia which shares a media market with Washington So this past weekend while watching the Sunday talk shows or the Lakers-Magic game I was bombarded with television spots for the three Democratic candidates for governor This has put me in mind of one of my pet peeves o

The President rsquo s speeches in Cairo and Normandy were both remarkable the way his speeches are almost always remarkable The delivery is deft the oratory seems matched to the moment and the orator himself is at once so provocatively different from his predecessors starting with the color of his

I wonder what will be said this morning at the water fountain down the hall from George Weigel rsquo s office at the Ethics amp Public Policy Center when they read Sandro Magister rsquo s column today I will take bets that paramedics will be needed at the American Enterprise Institute where Mich

The actual title of the article in this morning s Post nbsp by NARAL New York rsquo s vice-president of communications Mary Alice Carr is Why I turned down O rsquo Reilly but the real gist of her screed is different O rsquo Reilly is being incredibly disingenuous when he claims that he bears no