I spend almost every weekend from April through October in Washington Park, the South Side location of Chicago's proposed "disposable" Olympic...
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The good Christian is a law abiding citizen – so Sister told me in grammar school. An eternal truth that perhaps conceals more evil than appears to the eye. We...
Another diocese–this time a big one, the Archdiocese of Minneapolis-St. Paul–has announced a reorganization process, with promises that...
Not many people run a half marathon and fewer still these days join a religious order. Alicia Torres, 24, is doing both. She ran the Chicago half...
Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) created a stir when he accused President Barack Obama of lying that undocumented aliens would not benefit from his planned health care...
Migration from Mexico has clearly declined because of the recession and, the anti-immigrant nativists will insist, because of stepped-up enforcement at the...
Bolivia, along with Burma and Venezuela, received a little diplomatic hand-slapping from the Obama administration on September 15 as countries which had...
Ralph Lauren caused a stir last week with his collection of depression-inspired clothes at New York’s Fashion Week, but here’s a priest who really knows how to...
A quick post to point you to this great picture of Pope Benedict XVI, looking as excited as a schoolboy, holding a meteorite. The other highlight of the...
Is the end of mountain top removal finally on what's left of the Appalachian horizon? MTR is a particularly brutal form of coal extraction. Cynically...
