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Barack Obama, to hear his advisers tell it, has finally found The One he has been looking for: John McCain. “We have been looking literally for years for someone we can cut deals with, and finally someone has stepped up,” a White House official said. West Wing aides say they now talk with McCain roughly every other day. McCain, to hear fellow Republicans tell it, has finally found The Two he has needed to make such conversations worth the bother: Sen. Chuck Schumer, a Democrat who can actually get things done in the Senate, and Denis McDonough, a White House...

"Unholy Trinity of Litigation" and the Reform of the American Catholic Church by I.J. Toby Westerman As liturgical abuses continue, and the truths of the Faith are ignored in many-----if not most-----dioceses in the U.S., the vast majority of bishops appear willing to let the recent rash of charges of abuse against Catholic clergy and hierarchy fade from memory. The issue of decades-long clerical abuse against children, teenagers, young adults, and Catholic seminarians is being framed in terms of an ecclesiastical bureaucratic problem, rather than a collapse of clerical morality. The adoption of the "Charter for the Protection of Children...