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From the Catholic News Service:
Cardinal Sodano told Italian state television that the Vatican would be following the summit’s progress with “great attention.”
“The Holy See tries to be ’super partes’ (above all parties); it has a universal mission to unite all of humanity,” the cardinal said in the July 24 interview with RAI television.
His remarks echoed […]

An excerpt from this article, posted on IHT, shows how commited to its citizens the Bush administration became, especially when criticized:
 The U.S. evacuation effort, criticized for a slow start, began what officials called “a dramatic ramp-up” on Wednesday. The State Department, after days of angry grumbling from U.S. nationals and several legislators, had said Tuesday […]

I must confess that for the last several days my mind has been on very little else besides Israel. She continues to be attacked and bombed, and in turn she continues to blast away pieces and bits of Lebanon.
I was there two months ago. I met Islamics who had no problem living intermixed with Jews […]

One year ago, on Independence Day, I awoke at a youth hostel jetting out on a battery over Fort Mason in San Francisco. Simon from Brighton and myself packed out backpacks for the day and headed out, via bus, up to California Street and then down along Market. The morning was spent at Coit Tower, […]

To my loyal and dear readers, including the new reader from New Zealand and the Annonymous Ones in Amsterdam and Jerusalem: I have joined a new blogging community that will be featuring unique, Phoenix-based posts that are not found on Sharoute. The site is Phoenix Metblogs, where my content will be placed alongside fellow Valley […]

This week President Bush met with Rwandan President Paul Kagame to discuss refunding African Union peacekeeping countries who have sent troops into Darfur to help end the genocide there. Helping to end this genocide, exactly, is a great direction the U.S. can take to *really* tackle terrorism … the tension there between the extremeist Hutu […]

For those of you who keep tabs on such things, this weekend the Project Forever site will be going down for a little bit while some new ideas and new directions are thought out. It's true that PF has been a come-and-go flow of ideas and projects for the past 2 1/2 years, but I […]

What matters? A rally cry and show of power to help those who don't have clean water, or to rise against the travisties in Africa, would be actions that would represent the Church as sincere, compassionate, strong, and a force to be reckoned with. When people ask why we are so strong-minded about these things […]

As part of the "Red" campaign, Bono became editor of London's Independent newspaper for a day, turned the front page red, and sent Londoners a message about Africans dying of AIDS.
The "Red" Campaign is an off-shot of One and DATA, where Bono partners with companies like Gap to help raise money to send Africans […]

For the past several weeks I have been thinking a good deal about the concept of unity. Unity is one of Monsuun's driving forces, and is also a major driving force behind Project Forever and what we aim to do with artists. Initially, unity is one of those things that seems ideal and beneficial, but I […]