Evidentia

A lot of people are wondering whether Conrad Black’s fraud conviction will be tossed out, or upheld. Judge Richard Posner’s ruling in 2008 may give us a clue…

I wonder why, where and when Conrad Black lost touch with reality. Could he have been willing to leave his fate to a mere roll of the dice?

Conrad Black bears fundamental responsibility for a much of what happened at Hollinger International. But that is on the moral plane. Justice is blind. We will have to wait and see how things go in the Appeals Court.

I am wondering why there is a regular outpouring of sympathy for Conrad Black in the conservative Toronto press.

During the Second World War, the Nazi Werner von Braun designed and supervised the manufacture and launch of ballistic missiles directly targeting civilian populations. The fact he later led the American space programme shows that justice and respect for human rights are selective.

The real issue in the pedophilia crisis of the Catholic Church is that tens of thousands of children have been raped and deserve some redress, decades after the fact

The sexual abuse of close to 200 deaf-mute children in Wisconsin by a Catholic priest there serves as a reminder that the Church has two standards: one for the flock, and one for ecclesiastics.

The New York Times reports that then Cardinal Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, allowed a serial pedophile priest to escape prosecution. This reminds me that Jesus said “Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him if a great millstone were hung round his neck and he were thrown into the sea.”

The Mauritanian human rights organization SOS-Esclaves just sent me this testimony of a female slave, Oumoulkheir Mint Yarba, who escaped servitude in February 2010, and has now lodged official complaints against her former masters.

Simon Deng, a Sudanese Christian and former child slave, is campaigning for the right to life of his people in South Sudan, long persecuted by the Islamist government in Khartoum. I met him in New York City last weekend.