Some foul calls by replacement referees led to much gnashing of teeth and crushing of beer cans around the country this week Union referees had been locked out by N F L managers they rsquo ve since settled their differences and the temporary zebras running the field seemed to be using a rule bo

ldquo We are approaching the year 2015 and with that the famous Millennium Development Goals rdquo said Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga Archbishop of Tegucigalpa Honduras ldquo One of the MDGs is reducing poverty in the world by half rdquo he said speaking in New York on Sept 24 ld

The folks at Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life have created an interactive graphic that is easy to parse and fun to use that allows unrepentant political geeks to track candidate Obama and Romney s weekly standing in specific Christian denominations broken down even to frequency of worship atte

Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput was in the news this week after nbsp a Denver protege was elevated to a national position at the U S C C B and after he joined with a few other notable conservative bishops in NOT endorsing Mitt Romney for president while finding some things to like about Paul

I saw THE video last night see below after I got home from work and my first reaction was what s the big deal I didn t hear much that I hadn t already heard from the candidate in the subtext of his previous public declarations and nothing he said seemed likely to disturb his base If anything I

When is an embargoed media event not an embargoed media event Practically speaking in the era of smart-phones and mobile communication that would appear to be any and all of them The much-anticipated meeting of the minds between Stephen Colbert and N Y Cardinal Timothy Dolan at Fordham Universit

Was he a Chaput-in Sorry The new director of the USCCB Department of Justice Peace and Human Development has been named Replacing the legendary John Carr is frankly an unknown quantity to me and someone from completely outside the conference universe Jonathan J Reyes Ph D president an

I met briefly with Deputy National Security Advisor Denis McDonough Wednesday at the closing of the symposium ldquo International Religious Freedom An Imperative for Peace and the Common Good rdquo sponsored jointly by The Institute for Policy Research amp Catholic Studies the United States

It is sadly ironic that the horrible news out of Libya where the ambassador and three consular employees were killed after mob violence engulfed the U S consulate in Benghazi comes this morning as I travel to Washington for two days of conferences on the contemporary challenges to international r

The United Nations reports that more than 100 000 refugees escaped into neighboring states in August as violence in Syria escalated dramatically the highest monthly total since the beginning of the Syrian crisis U N officials were scrambling to respond to the health and nutrition needs of more th