A couple of lighter posts…(then I really will work on some promised heavier posts. ) This past Sunday, Katie and I took a few minutes out of our very busy lives to go to the local art house theater , the Cinema Center, to attend one of the events in a 2-day "Lombard-a-palooza." Carole Lombard…

John Allen: In the early twentieth century, North Korea was home to a small but flourishing Catholic community, with two territorial dioceses and a territorial abbacy entrusted to the Benedictine Order. During the 1950-53 Korean War, however, the Catholic presence was all but snuffed out – every priest in the country was exiled, imprisoned or…

We’ve been sporadically following the MIssouri battle over Amendment 2 – a battle which just might overtake California’s similar process in 2004 as winner of "Most Deceptive." Let’s try to do a wrap-up. Amendment 2 would essentially write the "right" to conduct research involving cloning human embryos into the Missouri state constitution. It is, of…

Elizabeth Lev’s column on constrasting sites in Rome this week: Talk about angels and demons … this week has treated us to a fascinating study in the sacred and profane life of the Eternal City. The first odd coupling this week was the juxtaposition of Rome’s first international film festival the same week as the…

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