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111 nations (but not the US) unite to seek ban on cluster bombs

A major and an unusual event took place earlier today uniting people from ALL major religions of the world. Look at this list of diverse nations that agreed on that one thing: US (Western Christianity), Russia (Eastern Christianity), China (Buddhism/atheism), India (Hinduism), Pakistan (Islam), and Israel (Judaism). Any lucky guesses what brought the disparate parties together? Sorry ladies and gentlemen. I am not talking about prospects of world peace, abolition of poverty or God revealing Himself to all humanity. I am talking about little flying things that go by the ‘cute’ name of bomblets.

See full story, by Khaled Hamid, special to the Post-Dispatch (May 29, 2008)

Posted by Catholic Democrats Staff on May 29, 2008 11:36 AM |

Saturday, July 4, 2009
"It is necessary to recover some basic aspects of finances, such as the primacy of labor over capital, of human relationships over purely financial transactions, and of ethics over the sole criterion of efficiency," Archbishop Celestino Migliore, the Vatican's apostolic nuncio to the United Nations.

Emily Hanson, Chair, Catholic Democrats of Missouri

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