Cardinal Peter Turkson President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace took ldquo Laudato Si rsquo rdquo on the road presenting the ldquo green encyclical rdquo from Pope Francis to a packed audience during a special conference at the United Nations on June 30 nbsp Turkson told hi

Harsh criticisms meted out by Pope Francis on free-market capitalism have sparked backlash from some fiscal conservatives and have led some people to call him "anti-capitalist" or even Marxist.Ahead of his apostolic visit to the United States in September, some are bracing themselves for m

Harsh criticisms meted out by Pope Francis on free-market capitalism have sparked backlash from some fiscal conservatives and have led some people to call him "anti-capitalist" or even Marxist.Ahead of his apostolic visit to the United States in September, some are bracing themselves for m

Harsh criticisms meted out by Pope Francis on free-market capitalism have sparked backlash from some fiscal conservatives and have led some people to call him "anti-capitalist" or even Marxist.Ahead of his apostolic visit to the United States in September, some are bracing themselves for m

Democracy must return to politics and unusual alliances must form in order to get the world to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and tackle poverty, said a panel of speakers attending a Vatican conference.But as people band together for change, world leaders will have to commit to real binding action

The state’s relative affluence may promote political stability.

Ignatian education calls more out of people than they knew they had.

But arson blamed for at least three fires at black churches since Charleston shooting

At this moment four new books on or by Pope Francis mdash four in an endless flood several every week of pope publications which have swept across my office desk in the months since the publishing world decided there was no limit to the market for a man who in the earlier stages of his career decl

As archbishop of Buenos Aires, Francis lived through a similar economic and social crisis.

Why Obergefell v. Hodges is not likely to be the next Roe v. Wade

As we continue to reflect upon some of the foundations of Jesuit and the broader landscape of Catholic education I want to share this illuminating thought from Fr Michael Himes of Boston College It 39 s another excellent thought for reflecting on the nature of the Catholic academic enterprise

'The New Evangelization happens every day in our Catholic schools.'

Itinerary shows Francis’ hope to be the leader of ‘a poor church for the poor.’

In word and deed, Pope Francis will take his vision of a Catholic's approach to family life, parish life, charity, economics, immigration and good governance to Cuba and the United States during a Sept. 19-27 visit.Visiting both Cuba and the United States on the same trip not only acknowledges h

In another in a series of bitterly divided end-of-term cases, the Supreme Court June 29 upheld the execution protocol used by Oklahoma and several other states.The 5-4 ruling written by Justice Samuel Alito upheld lower courts that said the use of the drug midazolam in lethal injection does not viol

This is the twentieth entry in the Bible Junkies Online Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles This entry continues Stephen rsquo s speech before the council For previous entries please now go to the Complete Acts of the Apostle Commentary where you can find links to each of the entries updated a

Part II of Matt Emerson's 'summer examen'

The Eighth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States prohibits the infliction of cruel and unusual punishments. It has long been established that this ban does not categorically rule out the death penalty.

Legal abstractions in Obergefell v. Hodges have concrete results