At a White House meeting to find “common ground” on the abortion issue, an excruciatingly precise use of language has revealed the White House policy on reducing the number of abortions: It’s YES to Obama’s “..let us work together to reduce the number of women seeking abortions”. But NO to the goal of reducing the [...]

The year before Barack Obama declared his intention to seek the office of US President, he gave a keynote speech at a conference sponsored by the progressive religious organization, Sojourners. It described Obama’s view of the relationship between politics and religion. To look at such a delicate subject in anything more than a cursory or [...]

The possibility that the British Cardinal O’Connor might take up a place in the House of Lords (to explain this to US readers: it’s a sort of a Senatorial office, but with much less direct power) is continuing to cause controversy, since the Catholic Church has fairly strongly moved away from the idea that clergy [...]