Thousands of people spanning all ages and races honoured the legacy of the nation’s foremost civil rights leader during a formal dedication of the new Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington. Aretha Franklin, poet Nikki Giovanni and President Barack Obama were among those who attended the more than four-hour ceremony. King’s children and other Read more
The US Conference of Catholic Bishops has established a Ad Hoc Committee for Religious Liberty in response a number of perceived attacks on religious freedom by Federal and State Departments. Bishop William Lori will chair the committee. Archbishop Timothy Dolan, president of the Bishops’ Conference, listed six particular areas of concern: • The Department of Health Read more
Is the way the world has reacted to the killing of Osama bin Laden the ultimate victory for the purveyors of terror; its normalisation? What is the most compelling image we have relating to the killing of Osama? “No, not the soon-to-be-released Bin Laden-shot-in-the-head photo (which could become one of the most viewed photographs in Read more
When Barack Obama won 54 percent of the Catholic vote in the 2008 presidential election, commentators barely noticed that John McCain won a majority of the religiously-active Catholic vote (51 percent to 49 percent). This was a small margin, to be sure, but it doesn’t bode well for the 2012 presidential race, after all the Read more