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I can’t ever recall reading letters (CR, Nov. 20) filled with such venom. President-elect Obama was accused of being a Marxist and prayers were called for his failure. Where was the outrage when President George W. Bush invaded Iraq without provocation and began a war that has taken over 800,000 lives, many of them innocent women, children and elderly? Over 4,000 of our own American soldiers have lost their lives, and many times that number are forever maimed, both physically and psychologically. Sen. John McCain wanted not only to continue this war but possibly to extend it into Iran and Syria for years on end. Where was the outrage when the U.S. began a program of torture?

A month after students at Cristo Rey Jesuit High School participated in the making of a video that promoted a message of peace in Baltimore, members of that fledgling institution were left to make sense of the violent demise of one of their own.

Even before the last pieces of meat are picked clean from the leftover Thanksgiving turkey, many Americans are already listening to Christmas carols on the radio and cramming into stores to buy holiday gifts.

VATICAN CITY – The Vatican newspaper said the musical compositions of the Beatles were far more creative than the “standardized and stereotyped” pop music of today.

VATICAN CITY – Without the practice of Christian charity, the world today risks a disastrous fixation on personal self-interest, Pope Benedict XVI said.

WASHINGTON – Several U.S. bishops have noted the historic nature of President-elect Barack Obama’s election as the first African-American to win the White House, with one describing it as “a moving and significant moment” and another expressing hope it will usher in “a new era of racial harmony.”