For many of us, the shortage of eggs because of avian influenza or “bird flu” creates an inconvenience: higher prices …Read More
Category: Editorials
Transparency is key to fair trade
President Barack Obama wants Congress to grant him Trade Promotion Authority or “fast-track authority” to negotiate the sweeping trade bill …Read More
A sense of mission
There’s a scene in the movie “The Mission” where 18th-century Guarani Indian boys sing a hymn in Latin, sounding like …Read More
Building up the church
We’ve got to stop the hand-wringing about a newly released study that reports continuing decline in the Christian share of …Read More
No time to waste – food
Let’s say you peer into your refrigerator and unearth leftover lasagna from a month ago, broccoli florets that have turned …Read More
Irish referendum and the same-sex marriage question
As the Irish prepare to vote May 22 on whether to legalize same-sex marriage in Ireland, Dublin’s archbishop says those …Read More
Natural and human-made disasters in our midst
On the surface, it wouldn’t appear that the earthquake in Nepal, the death of a black man while in police …Read More