Tea Party activists are marking the deadline for filing federal income taxes with a protest hear in Washington D C Yesterday Sarah Palin was in Boston site of the original Boston Tea Party giving her fair and balanced interpretation of American history and its current political circumstance I

My colleague Father Martin has pointed out the ridiculousness of Cardinal Bertone rsquo s comments linking pedophilia with homosexuality I find the Cardinal Secretary of State rsquo s remarks not only offensive but completely inexplicable Why would he cite studies that do not exist or which were f

Whom should President Obama nominate to replace Justice John Paul Stevens The question is today Washington rsquo s favorite parlor game Last year I somewhat mischievously suggested Obama nominate Al Gore to the Court and lo and behold tonight on MSNBC rsquo s The Ed Show my suggestion was t

The whole world now knows about Father Stephen Kiesle of Oakland the priest who tied up young boys and molested them sexually and whose request to be defrocked came before then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger The press is swarming with assertions that as the Washington Post headlined its story Future

Earlier this week the Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia Bob McDonnell issued a proclamation declaring April Confederate History Month Not mind you Civil War History Month Next year is the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the Civil War and it is undoubtedly a good thing to call

One hundred years hence it is possible that the history books will note the on-going ups-and-downs of the clergy sex abuse crisis Perhaps the treaty the President nbsp signed this morning nbsp to reduce the number of nuclear weapons will be the first of many which will in one hundred years reac

My friend and colleague Austen Ivereigh has a post below about the revelations of corruption contained in a new investigative report by Jason Berry over at NCR I concur with everything that Ivereigh says except this It makes for shocking reading I was not shocked in the least Perhaps Austen ha

One of the most surprising aspects of the reaction to the return of the clergy sex abuse scandal has been the way some commentators especially those on the Left have used the crisis to advance causes that do not actually have much to do with the underlying problems My colleague Father Martin has

If you were a student in a first-year Communications class and you were asked to devise a strategy for taking a situation say a scandal involving the clerical abuse of minors and make the situation worse to devise ways to add fuel to the flames rather than to squelch them to present yourself as

Good Friday is too solemn a day for blogging especially about something as ephemeral as politics But today with the Church besieged by scandal I hope that pastors who are called upon to preach will preach about the scandal of the Cross We have lost that sense of the Cross When we see a cross a