The dilemma of the Roman Catholic Church and its abusing priests is extreme. As the tale unfolds, the silence of Protestants is deafening.

No Church, of course, is without its sexual sinners. Protestant leaders would find it difficult to know what to say. Burdened by their history, Catholic and Protestant clergy rarely sup at each others' tables. They are distant co-labourers in the spi...

The morning after George W. Bush won his second term in office and many of his Republican colleagues also claimed victory last year, I received an e-mail from one of my dearest friends, Amanda.

It's a note that has haunted me since, a niggling at the back of my mind like an overdue library book or an insult hurled in anger that can't ever be taken back properly.

Amanda is one of t...

< Poll Numbers Plummet House Votes to Limit Eminent Domain >

On Thursday, primarily along party lines, the Senate voted 51-47 to approve the 2006 budget and, in the process, agreed 51-48 to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) in Alaska to oil drilling, despite the nominal impact such drilling would have on US oil supplies.

Polls show that most Americans oppose drilling ...

The film "Where the Truth Lies," which opens today, is a murder mystery set in the seedier realms of showbiz. Its subject matter is scandalous and lurid and disturbing. It is, in other words, just the kind of movie that makes you think: piña coladas!

Or it might be, if you knew a little something about the man behind the movie.

"Where the Truth Lies" is based on the novel by...

— The Senate on Thursday narrowly approved a sweeping five-year plan to trim a wide range of federal benefit programs and to allow drilling for oil and natural gas in a wilderness area of Alaska, increasing the chances that the energy industry and Alaska officials will achieve a long-sought goal.

The budget bill, the most ambitious effort to curb federal spending in eight years, was...

It is the biggest private employer in America with a turnover equivalent to that of a medium-sized country, but churches, unions, and an innovative film-maker are set on holding Wal-Mart to account

There can be few chief executives in corporate America more uncomfortable at the moment than Lee Scott of Wal-Mart. Not that he should necessarily have our sympathy: his company, known unaffec...

Thousands of people drive by Acuity Insurance every day and glance in the galleria windows at the immense glass sculptures that hang from the ceilings. Hundreds more walk below the glass installation called "Seven Sisters" and they all ask the same question: "How did they do that?"

Milwaukee Public Television will try to answer that question when its documentary, "Seven Sisters: A Robert ...