Fifty percent or more of school age Catholics during the 2013-2014 school year were Hispanic.

Election of Bishop Christopher Coyne auxiliary bishop of Indianapolis as chairman-elect of the U S Bishops rsquo Communications Committee may be another blessing of the Pope Francis effect nbsp Bishop Coyne was a last minute addition to the two-man slate for chair-elect of the communications c

It may be time for d tente between youth-oriented programs and parishes I offer this suggestion after hearing about a parish on Long Island which prepared a sixth grade reconciliation service for its religious education students Only two-thirds of the expected students showed up The reason The s

For decades, religious orders built schools and hospitals, not retirement programs.

Kathleen McChesney in 2002 was a top executive at the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI McChesney left the FBI after 24 years of law enforcement service there and became head of the U S Conference of Catholic Bishops USCCB Secretariat for the Protection of Child and Young People She signe

The appointment of Holy Cross Sister Joan Marie Steadman as executive director of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious bodes well for the organization that serves superiors of about 80 percent of the women rsquo s religious orders in the United States Aptly named Steadman brings experience

As the occasional wag has said The New York Times is fascinated by the Catholic Church because it cannot imagine any other institution that claims infallibility That came to mind October 26 when columnist Ross Douthat cavalierly suggested that Catholics help Pope Francis exercise his Petrine minis

Cardinal Francis George O M I of Chicago gives up pastoral governance of the Archdiocese of Chicago on Nov 18 when Archbishop Blase Cupich becomes Chicago rsquo s next episcopal leader Here is an e-mail Q amp A that Cardinal George a member of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate O M I granted t

The idea that the Catholic Church in the United States should get out of the civil marriage business drew new attention on October 20th when Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia tossed out the proposal in Manhattan at a lecture sponsored by the journal First Things The archbishop did not forma

This is part three of a three-part series on Catholic colleges and universities led today by lay leaders after a history of priests or women religious at their helms Read Part 1 on Trinity University Washington nbsp here nbsp and part 2 on the Catholic University of America here Questions focused o