Good fruit emerging from the sad Susan Torres situation of last year: Susan died after giving birth to their second child, Susan Anne Catherine, who was born premature after Susan had been declared to be "brain dead", and who also died five weeks later. Still, their lives were an inspiration and Susan and Jason’s marriage…

It will be interesting to see how this evolves. There is one Catholic on the expert list: Sister Rose Pacatte, FSP, is the founding Director of the Pauline Center for Media Studies in Culver City, CA She has a M.A. in Education in Media Studies from the Institute of Education, University of London, and a…

This question is for those of you who’ve traveled to Rome, or who live there right now…which is a startling proportion of you actually, taken all together. What’s your favorite "underground Rome" site to see? Which catacombs are the most powerful and interesting to tour? Every time I think I’ve got things pretty well figured…

The entire editorial staff of the alternative NYPress walked out and quit because the paper’s management refused to print The Cartoons. This is perhaps the most amazingly brazen moment of inconsistency we’ve seen yet in the press treatment of this material. The paper’s management doesn’t want to offend religious sensibilities? Really? How quickly they forget….…

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