During the Pope’s visit to America, I had the privilege of commenting for NBC News and for MSNBC. Twice I was on for extended periods with Brian Williams, the former anchor for NBC Nightly News, […]
MPAA Rating, PG USCCB Rating, NA Reel Rating, (4 of out 5 reels) “People ask me ‘Why do you risk death?’ For me, this is life.” This opening line wonderfully […]
In a 1956 article in Commonweal magazine, “Stoicism in the South”, author Walker Percy wrote of “a momentous change which has taken place in a single generation”: namely, that until a few years ago, the […]
Cardinal Kasper has taken to using the “F” word in criticizing some of his opponents on the question of divorce and civil remarriage. It seems that they are “fundamentalists”, not appreciating the context of the […]
I. On the plane trip back to Rome from Philadelphia on American Airlines, Pope Francis was asked two questions about his trip. The first was from a lady with the wonderful name of Maria Ruiz […]
The news this morning that the Vatican press office was walking back Pope Francis’ encounter with Kim Davis set off the Twitterverse and Blogosphere. Davis is the Rowan County, Kentucky, clerk who caused headlines when […]
Planned Parenthood President and CEO Cecile Richards, testifying before the House Oversight Committee this week, finally admitted that not one of organization’s some 700 clinics is outfitted with a mammogram machine. This means, hopefully, the […]
No sooner had the Vatican issued an official statement confirming Pope Francis’ meeting with Kim Davis during the DC leg of his US visit, than reports emerged of another meeting with the Holy Father—this time […]
After initially stating that he could neither confirm nor deny that a meeting took place between Pope Francis and Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis, then saying that he simply could not deny it, Vatican spokesman […]
I live in Eugene, Oregon, just a few miles from where 15-year-old Kip Kinkel, in May 1998, murdered his parents and then went on a shooting spree at Thurston High School, killing two students and wounding 25 […]
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