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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 […]
Say some prayers for Israel and the acts of war that surround them … the Gaza Strip and Palastinian Territories in the south and the Lebananon conflict in the north.
Today some Lebaneese rockets struck Haifa …
The attack came soon after two rockets struck the northern Israeli port of Haifa on a day of spiraling violence […]
One year ago today I woke up with a start from my bed on the living room floor of Mike Skon’s Irvine apartment, dreaming that I had just been in a large, sudden explosion. The boom, the noise, the feeling was so real that I stood up and looked out the windows, and from up […]
Today CNN.com reported that Russian President Vladmir Putin licked a little boy “like a kitten.” A quote from Putin:
“People came up and I began talking to them, among them this little boy. He seemed to me very independent, sure of himself and at the same time defenseless so to speak, an innocent boy and a […]