Catholic Adoption Charity Controversy

The Catholic Church has taken some hits of late. First there was the fiasco of the Pope’s declaration on condom’s in Africa. “You can’t resolve it with the distribution of condoms,” the pope told reporters aboard the Alitalia plane heading to Yaounde. “On the contrary, it increases the problem.” His comments sparked fierce responses from [...]

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Dangerous Aid

In 2008, 260 humanitarian aid workers were killed, kidnapped or seriously injured in violent attacks – the highest yearly toll on record…The fatality rate of aid workers from malicious acts alone surpassed that of United Nations peacekeeping soldiers in 2008. In the most violent contexts for aid workers, politically motivated attacks have risen relative to [...]

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Better Late Than Never?

There’s (finally) a push to prosecute Bush and all his cohorts for their crimes in office. Now, many of us Americans have been saying for years that if we can prosecute Clinton for lying about getting a blow job and find a new use for a cigar, we ought to be able to punish Bush [...]

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