End the Torture Nightmare

The following (op-ed) blog is from the National Religious  Campaign Against Torture and was distributed by the USCCB.
Last week Congress moved to restore America’s moral reputation by voting to end the CIA “enhanced interrogation techniques” program — the program that admittedly has used waterboarding on at least three terrorist suspects and has likely [...]

Honoring the Martyrs of the 1956 Budapest Uprising

I remember listening to Pope Pius XII on the radio when I was eleven years old. On October 23, 1956 he spoke to the nations of the world of the students and workers in Budapest protesting for freedom from Communist Russia. (Since 1945 Moscow controlled and confiscated the wealth of Eastern Europe, including Hungary. The [...]