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Analysis and opinion about international affairs, politics, and society.
The University of California-Irvine is being called upon to not only uphold the freedom of speech of Muslims who chant 'Death to Israel', but also the civil rights of students who denounce anti-Semitism.
The blatant hypocrisy of claiming diversity as a goal when clearly there are individuals and points of view that are not welcome goes without saying
Hillary Rodham Clinton's association with American radical Saul Alinsky is problematic. His espousal to Machiavellian tactics is at odds with Christian principles. Yet the Catholic Church funnels money to Alinskyite organizations.
The U.S., European Union, Israel, and the Sunni Arab states are the real targets of the muscle-flexing by Hezbollah and its Syrian and Iranian sponsors
Some blind people who regain their sight never become accustomed to the gift they have received. Like them, Christians are often ungrateful for the gifts of the Holy Spirit.
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Having once defeated the apartheid system, South Africa now seems to be falling for xenophobia even while the need for foreign-trained professionals is rising.
Research in Sweden suggests that taking birth control pills to relieve rheumatoid arthritis is no panacea, as has been previously suggested. More questionable claims on the use of human embryonic stem cells is now on trial. As usual, money talks.
Jesus commissioned his apostles and all his followers to go and make disciples of all nations, thereby founding an apostolic church.
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The overuse of the criminal law has diminished the moral authority of the law and has had a deleterious effect on the administration of justice
The fundamental error of abortion and racism is in the thinking that when someone stands in the way of our wants, we are justified in getting that person out of our lives.
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In Iraq, the utter absence of peace became the basis for the just cause against it
by Joseph Capizzi, Ph.D. and Kim R. Holmes, Ph.D. | Discuss
China's government found a number of different vulnerabilities in the U.S. defense industry base which has handed to the Chinese a monopoly on supplies of an essential resource to modern computing electronics
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Shortly after the Supreme Court's decision last year upholding the constitutionality of the ban on partial birth abortions, Obama condemned the court's decision, saying it was part of "a concerted effort to steadily roll back" legal abortions
J Street is an alternative to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee in voicing concens of Jewish Americans seeking new approach to US policies. While pro-Israel, the J Street lobby will push for a two-state solution for Israel and neighbours.
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Revaluation will weaken the purchasing power of the American consumers, mostly from the middle and lower economic strata, who depend on Chinese products to maintain their standard of life
The ancient Christian kingdom of Ethiopia faces modern problems of peace and security, HIV-AIDs. It celebrates its Millenium Year and its tradition of faith and martyrdom.
Planned Parenthood which recently aborted 289,750 babies is cynically using Mother's Day to raise funds. If PP knew how to respect women's bodies and the gift of sexuality, it would not be promoting abortion and promiscuity nor covering up statutory rape.
The China Philharmonic and the Shanghai Opera chorus will perform Mozart's Requiem and Chinese folk tunes for the pope. While serving to burnish Beijing's before the Olympics, it may signal a division within the Chinese leadership on religious freedom.
Corn ethanol's inherent energy inefficient character has been exposed by experts. What remains is the banana oil sold by Corn Belt politicians and a 51-cent-per-gallon subsidy paid by US taxpayers.
It was altogether fitting for the UN to invite Pope Benedict XVI to speak during his trip to the US. The UN celebrates the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: which has underpinnings in the ancient Greeks and Judeo-Christianity.
Christians share a responsibility for extending the missionary work of the Church at home and throughout the world.
Much of what Pope Benedict XVI said during his US visit was obscured by the media's focus on his response to sexual abuse by clerics. The pope fills a new role in a life story of integrity and dialogue.
Hillary Clinton and Barrack Obama can't grasp that our perverse health care economics result from over-centralization and bureaucratization, so they propose even more
Two books, one by Pope Benedict XVI and one by Cardinal Newman, are good sources for explaining to all for the "hope that is in you" (1 Peter 3:15).
Over 90 percent of Columbian products shipped to the US already arrive duty-free while all products to Columbia are tariffed
Advocates of new doctrine expect the United States to recognize and adopt a new international norm that is partially based on treaties and protocols that it has already rejected
H-1B visa holders are often key employees whose skills are necessary for companies to grow
Bin Laden's propaganda factories are cranking out a steady stream of material with a new DVD--one every three or four days--finding its way throughout the Muslim world
NATO countries should show unity in the face of a Russian assault on Georgia's territorial integrity
North Korea has not experienced any negative consequences as a result of its belligerent actions or penalties for violating agreements and missing deadlines
The house price bubble has been limited to metropolitan areas with strong land use regulation
Higher taxes on capital will hinder the growth of investment and capital stock
Colombia is the bull's eye in Hugo Chavez's quest to become the final political and economic arbiter in the Andes
European public says War on Terrorism is a result of the "paranoia" of the United States, that we are dealing here with criminals, but not with a fatal threat to our freedom, and even that the freedom is more threatened by anti-terrorist provisions
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In an October 2006 court appearance, Ginnah Muhammad was asked by a judge to remove her face veil in court in order for him to judge her truthfulness. On May 12, she lost her appeal and her lawyer promises to take the case to the Supreme Court.
Author and activist Michaelene Fredenburg speaks to the grief and sense of loss of women and others touched by abortion. In her book "Changed" and website, she offers poignant testimonies and resources for abortion victims and those who care.
The horrific cyclone that killed thousands in Burma may change. A biography about a Catholic of Burma is a testament of faith and hope in the face of a brutal dictatorship sustained by torture and rape.
One of history's great atrocities, the corporate commoditization of water is an injustice amidst a growing water crisis. 2.6 million billion have no access to potable water; 1.8 million kids die from water-related illnesses.
Some critics grumbled that the pope said little in the US about issues such as climate change and Third-World debt. The pope reaffirmed the Church's teaching on allowing the laity prudential judgement and to take a variety of positions on policy.
Austria is being rocked by self-recrimination in the wake of the Josef Frizl incest scandal. But the lack of engagement by the public that may have led to the decades-long rape of Frizl's daughter cannot be explained by Austria's Nazi past.
Protestant pastor John Hagee pledges to not reinforce mischaracterizations of the Catholic Church
A Coca Cola spokeswoman refused to hear questions about confiscation of a family's assets in Egypt. The Bigio family are seeking compensation from the giant corporation for assets seized by Egypt and now owned by Coke. A boycott of Coke has been launched.
Eastertide ends with Pentecost, which celebrates the coming of the Counselor, Comforter, Advocate, and Holy Spirit. It leads us to the Solemnity of the Holy Trinity, reminding us that as created persons we need communion with other persons.
There are aspects of the military-industrial-congressional complex that should trouble people of faith. The US now leads the world in military spending, but if we want peace we must work for justice.
Katha Pollitt in the Chicago Tribune, a supporter of Obama along with anti-Catholic Frances Kissling, wrote that religion is "weirdness, wrath, insult, blowhardiness, vanity paranoia, divisiveness and trouble". Obama should lead a purge.
Oscar Kimanuka, and editor of the East African weekly, is calling for Pope Benedict XVI to apologize for the involvement of some churchmen in the 1994 genocide. Reports show that some Catholics are leaving for Islam.
Dr. Alveda King, niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, said it is time "to let freedom ring for the babies", in reference the targeting of African Americans for abortion.
A Catholic in the Florida legislature opposes allowing Florida license plates emblazoned with "I believe" and a Christian cross saying that she doesn't want to see a Torah or Star of David next.
The Turkish military and the Constitutional Court have been seen as the last vestiges of Kemalism in what has been secularist government. Defects in the Turkish political system have come to the fore with an indictment of the ruling party last year.
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