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Atheist Fidel Castro lectures the Pope on the secular virtues of his Revolution… Last week, President Bush surprised many of his fellow Methodists (well-known for their religious reserve) by paying tributes to Pope John Paul II with fundamentalist emotion and conviction. In fact, he even offered a zealous defense of the Pope when his new… Read more.
Woods celebrates his fourth Masters win Just 2 days ago, sports commentators were lamenting the end of Tiger’s mastery over professional golf. Today, they cannot find words to describe his brilliant victory in yesterday’s Masters Golf Tournament. Click here for some of the thrilling details. News and Politics Read more.
Africa’s weapons of mass destruction make those Sadaam used on his people look like firecrackers. News and Politics Read more.
Fairy tales do come true….Queen Camilla despite her face! News and Politics Read more.
Vick: Damn! This is really gonna screw up my game… It seems that no matter how many cautionary tales they witness (e.g. Magic Johnson’s career destroyed by HIV, Michael Jordan sued by his mistress for palimony, Dr J’s lust child descending upon him 18 years after one of his trysts, etc.), professional athletes will continue… Read more.
Well done – my good and faithful servant. Thou art blessed as the Pope of popes. No doubt Catholics would like to think that’s how God greeted John Paul II in Heaven. But President Bill Clinton created quite a furor yesterday with the following: The Pope centralized authority in the papacy again and enforced a… Read more.
The U.S. Congress welcomes Ukrainian President Viktor Yuschenko as the world’s latest hero of Democracy! Yesterday, the newly elected president of Ukraine, Viktor Yushchenko, received a triumphal welcome before addressing a joint session of the United States Congress. Yushchenko thanked President George W. Bush for standing firm in his support for Ukraine’s Orange Revolution .… Read more.
Mark Thatcher has been the bane of his mother’s existence for all of her political life: from his involvement in illegal arms dealing to getting lost in the Sahara desert while participating in an international car race. And now, in addition to causing her more emotional anguish and public embarrassment, he has sullied her good… Read more.
Cardinal Francis Arinze of Nigeria Unlike anywhere else in the world, African Catholics are growing in number and are almost as faithful to the Catechism of the Catholic Church as Pope John Paul II was himself. Therefore, the selection of an African Cardinal as the next Pope would seem divinely inspired. But, since there is… Read more.
Marty Peretz: I pledge allegiance to George W. Bush and to the doctrine for which he stands…America, right or wrong! As President Bush continues his Forrest Gump-like domination of world politics, his detractors remain marginalized in stupefaction and awe (and nursing more than a little envy). For his American critics, however, these emotions have just… Read more.
