You need to take a deep breath when you describe the 2009 winner of the Eternal Light Award from the Center for Catholic-Jewish Studies at Saint Leo University. ...more

February 28, 2009

I recall sitting at a Kigali restaurant with a Tutsi woman who described the death of her younger sister, a university student, during the Rwandan genocide. The girl had been given up for murder by one of her own teachers, who was a nun. The survivor across from me, previously a Catholic, had never attended church again. In the sacrifice of the Mass, she could only see the sacrifice of her sister. ...more

February 8, 2009

The Vatican, bowing to the growing furor over Pope Benedict VXI's decision to accept a return to the church of a prelate who denied the Holocaust, made a dramatic turnaround Wednesday and demanded the bishop recant. ...more

February 4, 2009

German Chancellor Angela Merkel called on Pope Benedict XVI to make a "very clear" rejection of Holocaust denials after the Vatican's rehabilitation of a former bishop who questioned whether 6 million Jews were gassed by the Nazis. ...more

February 3, 2009

Pope Benedict XVI, acceding to the far-right of the Catholic Church, revoked the excommunications of four schismatic bishops Saturday, including one whose comments denying the Holocaust have provoked outrage. ...more

January 25, 2009

If you've spent much time in this town, you've seen some pretty bad football. From the 0-26 beginning to the Lost Years of Leeman Bennett, Ray Perkins, Richard Williamson and Sam Wyche, folks in these parts know about being force-fed a lousy product. ...more

December 30, 2008