In ordering the U.S. bishops to abstain from voting on measures aimed at addressing clerical sex abuse, Pope Francis may have inadvertently performed the most consequential and costly act of his papacy.
Proceedings have been opened against a Moroccan stablehand working in Messina, Sicily, who was caught on surveillance cameras giving a little too much attention to one of the stable’s horses.
In a move that would have delighted Andrew Breitbart, a prominent British historian is using the internet to overthrow mainstream media’s monopoly by producing his own 96-part documentary series on YouTube.
Nothing calls to mind the sad vision of a perennial 1970s-style economic sclerosis more than France–and nothing is more representative of Gallic stubborn refusal to live in the real world than its flagship 75% top rate of taxation.
Last week President Obama, with the critical help of Pope Francis, announced a restoration of diplomatic relations with Cuba and a partial lifting of the 54-year-old trade embargo. One week on, everyone is still talking about Cuba: Ed Royce, chair
