This week we have a video report on the short-term and long-term efforts to restore church artifacts and salvage church records in the Archdiocese of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina Archivists from around the country pitched in to save and catalogue items Watch the video below to learn more

Pope Sixtus V called it ldquo contrary to Christian charity rdquo The third Lateran Council proclaimed it ldquo a heresy rdquo worthy of excommunication Both Old and New Testaments denounced it as did Plato Aristotle Moses the Buddha and Muhammad The offensive practice Usury defined a

The Pope has continued with the argument he wants to have with British secularism at a joyous outdoor Mass attended by 70 000 in Bellahouston Park in Glasgow Scotland -- reprising a phrase which has come to define his pontificate nbsp The evangelization of culture is all the more important in our

British humanists have reacted furiously to Pope Benedict lumping together atheism and Nazism in his speech at Edinburgh As we reflect on the sobering lessons of the atheist extremism of the 20th century let us never forget how the exclusion of God religion and virtue from public life leads ul

Confounding the image of him created by the storm of criticism this past week in the British press Pope Benedict XVI arrived in Edinburgh this morning with his eyes downcast generating a warmth that seemed to spread through the crowds On the flight from Rome he spoke of his sorrow at clerical se

Highly nbsp nbsp unusual to say the least nbsp John Henry Newman s Feast will not be the day of his death as is traditional but his reception into the Roman church nbsp Is his entrance into the Roman Catholic Church more significant than his entrance into Heaven nbsp The story from CNS in