The America Media Podcast

Associate Editor Kevin Clarke talked to Virginia Farris, a foreign policy adviser to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, shortly after the murder of Shahbaz Bhatti, a Pakistani minister who was fighting the blasphemy laws in his country. Here we provide an excerpt from that interview, and an update on the promotion of Bhatti's cause as a saint and martyr.

Thomas G. Weiss, the director of the Ralph Bunch Institute for International Studies at the City University of New York Graduate Center, explains how the international norm known as the "responsibility to protect" helped prevent humanitarian disaster in Libya, and how it might guide the international response to Syria.