37 senators ask Vietnam's president to free dissident Roman Catholic priest Star Tribune | WASHINGTON - Thirty-seven U.S. senators are asking Vietnamese President Nguyen Minh Triet to release a dissident Roman Catholic priest serving prison and house arrest terms totaling 13 years. | In a letter sent through the Vietnamese Embassy, the senators said the Rev. Thadeus Nguyen Van Ly had no...
Vatican finds enough evidence to continue probe into miracle' The News & Observer | WICHITA, Kan. -- The Vatican found enough evidence of a miracle in the survival of Chase Kear of Colwich, Kan., that it intends to keep studying his survival, with an eye toward declaring it an official miracle, church officials say. | Declaring it a miracle would help determine whether Father Emi...
Zelaya's Vow to Return to Honduras Stirs Controversy Wall Street Journal By JOSE DE CORDOBA and PAUL KIERNAN | Associated Press | The Organization of American States meets in emergency session, in Washington, to consider suspending Honduras' membership because of the coup that ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya. | TE...
'I give up,' political maverick declares Review Journal | CARSON CITY -- Christopher Hansen, who chaired the Independent American Party of Nevada during its period of greatest growth, has resigned from his party and dropped out of politics. | "I give up," said a bitter Hansen, who for four years chaired t...
Vatican official slams Italy's security law Syracuse | (AP) - ROME - Italian officials and lawmakers on Friday defended a new law designed to combat illegal immigration after the Vatican official for migrant issues said the bill unjustly demonizes foreigners. | Umberto Bossi, who heads the anti-immigra...
Vatican inquiries into sisters causing trepidation Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | Sister Mary Traupman might be the emblem of the post-Vatican II woman of the church: She lives alone, practices law and yet belongs to a religious community tugging against the past to enter an age in which tradition and devotion sometimes collide....
Obama's Sense of Ummah Wall Street Journal | Paul Gigot: This week on "The Journal Editorial Report": | President Obama: I've come here to Cairo to seek a new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world...
Catholic leaders downplaying abuse The Examiner | Damning evidence has been presented in the 9-year investigation into Catholic Church-run reform schools in Ireland that confirm decades of rapes, humiliation and beatings of cast...
Ethics office closes probe of Catholic rally Hartford Courant HARTFORD, Conn. - The state's ethics office decided Wednesday to drop its investigation into whether the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport should have registered as a lobbyist before holding rallies and using its Web site to oppose legislation. | ...
Court-appointed CPA rejects settlement proposal Syracuse | (AP) - SALT LAKE CITY - A court-appointed accountant says he can't back a settlement proposal that gives the majority of a property trust's assets back to a polygamous church run by Warren Jeffs. | Court papers filed Tuesday by attorneys for Bruce ...
Les Merritt goes private to fight corruption The News & Observer | Former state Auditor Les Merritt has formed a nonprofit foundation dedicated to rooting out public corruption. | The Foundation for Ethics in Public Service opened in May to expose corruption across the nation, Merritt said. | Unlike during his tim...
Australia denies pressuring Vatican Inquirer | MELBOURNE, Australia—The government denied Sunday it was interfering in Vatican affairs by lobbying Pope Benedict XVI to declare a nun who died 100 years ago the country's first saint. | Prime Minister Kevin Rudd will meet the Pontiff next week while he is in Italy for an economic meeting and has said he will encourage the Catholic leader to have...
Implementing change in Lebanon Daily Star Lebanon | By Marco Vicenzino | Saturday, July 04, 2009 | - Powered by | First person by Marco Vicenzino | The 1989 Taif Accord which ended Lebanon's Civil War also ended Christian dominance of national politics and drastically reduced presidential powers, through which Christian hegemony was constitutionally expressed. However, the symbolism of Lebanon's p...
