"Pare," "Stop." I tell a child as he is about to take a sip of brown, stagnant water. It is a natural reaction as a parent. That water can't possibly be good for him. Living in Guatemala, I have lived this scene over and over again. Like many people, my second reaction is "Where was the government? Why do these poor children have to drink parasite-infested liquid? Someone should fix this."
BOSTON – An order of Catholic nuns that has balked at complying with a federal mandate forcing it to buy insurance that covers medical services and drugs that go against the contraception and abortion got some support from a University of Massachusetts Law School professor, who has weighed in before the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of the people they serve.
"For almost 150 years," Dwight Duncan, a professor of constitutional law and NewBostonPost blogger, says in his friend-of-the-court brief, "the Little Sisters of the Poor in the United States have provided an incomparable loving environment for elderly poor people, many of whom have nowhere else to go. "
