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Is Donald Trump leading in the polls because he challenges "the elite consensus" on immigration? (Image from donaldjtrump.com)
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
Robert David Sullivan
Are Trump's GOP critics at risk of joining the 'elite consensus'?
Dispatches
Jim McDermott
'People who want to defend their families don’t need a 100-round drum magazine.'
The Ignatian Educator
Matt Emerson
Last week I shared an essay of Brendan Busse S J who wrote at The Jesuit Post about gratitude as the antidote to anxiety Yesterday from a different angle David Brooks reflected upon the subject at his space at The New York Times Quoting G K Chesterton and admitting his own struggles to be b
Servicemen from the Aydar battalion throw a Ukrainian flag from the building of Ukraine's Defense Ministry in Kiev during a protest against the disbanding of the battalion in this file photo. (CNS photo/Valentyn Ogirenko, Reuters)
News
Jonathan Luxmoore - OSV News
A Ukrainian bishop said a Russian-backed separatist rebellion has plunged his country into its worst humanitarian crisis since World War II and warned that "millions of refugees" could soon head for Europe to escape starvation.
Father Ken Laverone is current vice postulator for the sainthood cause of Blessed Junipero Serra and an advocate of the Spanish missionary. He is pictured at St. Francis of Assisi Church in Sacramento, Calif.
News
Catholic News Service
People with ties to the California mission system see the canonization of its founder as a moment for reflection and reconciliation with native people.
In All Things
U.S.C.C.B.
Cardinal Se n O rsquo Malley O F M Cap archbishop of Boston and chairman of the Committee on Pro-Life Activities of the U S Conference of Catholic Bishops responded on July 29 to recent videos showing leaders from Planned Parenthood discussing the provision of fetal organs tissues and body
Asia Bibi's daughters hold up a picture of their mother
Dispatches
Kevin Clarke
Bibi, 49, and the mother of five, has been behind bars for the last six years.
In All Things
David Collins
Excitement over the discovery of a reliquary in the grave of Jamestown founding member Gabriel Archer has gone viral this week thanks first to an article in The Atlantic and then to articles in today rsquo s New York Times and Washington Post Given the narrowly Anglican identification of the early
Dawn E. Hawkins
In All Things
Sean Salai
'I want to make pornography intolerable.'
In All Things
James Martin, S.J.
Every unnecessary death is a tragedy; but they don't all get the same coverage.
The Ignatian Educator
Matt Emerson
As group projects become the norm, introverted students are seen as 'problem cases.'
News
Patricia Zapor - Catholic News Service
A federal judge ruled July 24 that the government's immigrant family detention system violates a settlement agreement dating to 1997 over how juveniles in the custody of the immigration agency are treated.
News
Mark Pattison - Catholic News Service
Troops can still select unit leaders based on their religious principles.
News
Catholic News Service
Seven presidential candidates have responded to a call from anti-poverty advocates by submitting brief videos outlining their plans to address poverty.
Savile on Tops of the Pops in 1964. The first allegations against him, like Bill Cosby, surfaced decades ago but did not lead to meaningful investigations.
Dispatches
Kevin Clarke
The Savile scandal, much like Cosby’s, reveals the pernicious privilege of celebrity.
News
Mark Pattison - Catholic News Service
Polling may show that Americans are roughly split on President Obama's overall job performance as president, but his visit to El Reno and the commutations show evidence of an emerging consensus that sentences are too harsh and that many prisoners are locked up for far longer than necessary.
Bishop Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst
News
Tom Heneghan - Religion News Service
A German Catholic diocese wants to take episcopal responsibility to a new level by making its disgraced former “bishop of bling” responsible for the 3.9 million euros ($4.9 million) in losses incurred during the luxury makeover of his residence and office.
Dispatches
Jim McDermott
Last Thursday saw yet another frightening act of gun violence this time in Lafayette La as a man shot off 20 rounds during an evening showing of ldquo Trainwreck rdquo killing two and injuring nine others Since then the country has pretty much followed its scripted cycle of reactions nbsp P
The Ignatian Educator
Matt Emerson
They've graduated, but are members of the 'most-loved' generation ready for what comes next?
In All Things
Ashley McKinless
The ruling does not mean these families can expect immediate release.