More moves toward transparency and accountability
The news, as ever, is filled with lots of horrific events. I remember going round with my journalist father, Kays Gary, when I was in my first journalism class in junior high, about why newspapers...
View ArticleBob Schieffer on Church Bureaucracy
To follow up on yesterday’s post, here’s a great commentary by CBS’s Bob Schieffer on Catholic Church bureaucracy and the pedophile priest scandal. Peace. Deborah Alicen
View ArticleThey may as well be Martians: what the Vatican doesn’t get
Like many people, I’ve been reading the reports of emerging charges of sexual abuse by pedophile priests in Europe, as well as reports of the mounting evidence of Pope Benedict‘s role, first as...
View ArticleRevisiting Australia–Updated
Here’s the update to the piece below, the delay in the posting of which belongs to me and not to my no longer “Secret Connection” Down Under, Fr. David Smith. You’d do yourself a favor to check out his...
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Speaking of Kafka
As I regularly refer to Franz Kafka, this item on some of his unpublished papers got my attention this morning. Part of Kafka’s genius was in seeing, and making the picture accessible to others, the...
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Another International Update–Nepal
A couple of months ago I ran a story about the promotion of ethics in civil service in Nepal. It appears we can look for that to continue following the abolishment of the monarchy and the nation...
View ArticleRudd and bureaucrats again…
Kevin Rudd‘s administration in Australia is going to continue to be of interest here because of his background as a bureaucrat, and his apparent dedication to bureaucracies that well serve the public....
View ArticleMy Memorial Day Weekend
I suppose I spent the Memorial Day Weekend much as many people did. I mostly did yard work, planting flowers and cleaning up the detritus that gathers in a yard over a winter. I talked with neighbors...
View ArticleAustralia’s New PM Puts Major Focus on Bureaucratic Reform
Australia recently saw the sort of shift in national leadership that some 70% of Americans are hoping for, when the government of John Howard—great ally of G.W. Bush–drew to a close after the election...
View ArticleCaught on Tape–“Counterintelligence Woman!”
Gosh golly gee whiz. Here I am, a bare six months into this blog and already I’ve succumbed to leading with a sensationalistic and inaccurate headline. My bad. So here’s the clarification....
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