Thought someone might post this yesterday and chances are our loyal readers have already seen it But I suspect it will spark an interesting conversation Ross Douthat writing in Monday s New York Times In 2002 the study reported 22 percent of Americans aged 15 to 24 were still virgins By 2008

Thought someone might post this yesterday and chances are our loyal readers have already seen it But I suspect it will spark an interesting conversation Ross Douthat writing in Monday s New York Times In 2002 the study reported 22 percent of Americans aged 15 to 24 were still virgins By 2008

From Mirada Global an examination of the perennial floods in the mountains of Rio de Janeiro mdash and why nothing has been done to prevent them The whole of Brazil and even the rest of the world have witnesses the situation that the State of Rio de Janeiro faces due to the rains and the floods

Just posted to our home page this video commentary from Fr Jim Martin on the symbolic acts of repentance by two church leaders in Ireland Tim Reidy nbsp

Thanks to former Baseball Commissioner Fay Vincent for sending this remembrance of George W. Hunt, S.J.

From Ciudad Nueva via Mirada Global a report on crime in Brazils infamous favelas and what can be done about them The successful experience of the Police Pacifying Units UPP in Portuguese confirm the need to invest in training The results achieved in the favelas where they have been plac

From Cuidad Nueva via Mirada Global a look at poverty in Argentina One of Argentina rsquo s unresolved matters in its Bicentennial is related to poverty which increased notoriously during the lsquo 90s when it rose to over 40 The country has natural resources and it is far from being overp

From Mensaje magazine via Mirada Global Thousands of secret cables from U S diplomacy published by WikiLeaks show us an unflattering portrait of Latin America The reports from the embassies to Washington have two clearly different messages One is in the analysis of U S diplomats This level

Last month we featured a guest blog post from Jeffery M Abood on the plight of Christians in the Middle East Here we offer a response from Rabbi Eugene Korn Rabbi Korn is director of Israel rsquo s Center for Jewish-Christian Understanding and Cooperation where he directs its Institute for Theol

This moving first person account from the shepherd of Tucson has just been posted online A sample nbsp I experienced throughout that awful week of suffering a people fervent in prayer a people caring and concerned for one another a people doing countless acts of kindness to ease the pain and so