Catholicism has untold numbers of saints and many of them are beloved It is only right that in a ldquo universal church rdquo that this should be so sanctity and holiness are not the exclusive property of a few and the seemingly exponential variety and kinds of sainthood there is offers great ho

Saturday, June 18, is the one-year anniversary of "Laudato Si'."

Most Americans—including people from every major religious group—predict gay marriage will be legalized nationwide when a hotly anticipated Supreme Court ruling is announced later this month. Among those who favor legalizing same-sex marriage, 80 percent think the high court will rule th

Francesco Cesareo, chair of the National Review Board, told bishops even though progress has been made, there is no room for complacency on abuse of minors.

Pope Francis will open a homeless shelter on the edge of Vatican City, the latest move by the pontiff to help poor people in Rome.

A week before the anticipated release of Pope Francis' encyclical on human ecology and the environment, the U.S. bishops were urged to help Catholics hear and understand it.

Hunter Rawlings President of the Association of the American Universities knows what it 39 s not So let rsquo s acknowledge that college is nbsp not nbsp a commodity It rsquo s a challenging engagement in which both parties have to take an active and risk-taking role if its potential value is to

Ongoing crisis in eastern Ukraine was the principal topic of their conversation.

The U.S. bishops join with other religious leaders and civic leaders "in pledging to work for healing and reconciliation" after a series of racial conflicts "that have taken place around our beloved country," said Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, Kentucky.

Move considered 'a further sign of the Vatican's commitment to financial transparency'

As the June 18 release of the pope 39 s encyclical on the environment approaches pre-emptive commentary either lauding or diminishing its so-far unseen contents continues apace Asked to comment on the galloping punditry that has anticipated the encyclical Miami Archbishop Thomas Wenski noted wit

Declaration urges people to consider the moral dimensions of a changing climate.

U S Conference of Catholic Bishops President and Louisville Archbishop Joseph Kurtz said U S bishops would welcome and cooperate with a new episcopal governing mechanism confirmed in an announcement from Rome this morning The Vatican announced today that Pope Francis had accepted the recommendati

C.D.F. to "judge bishops with regard to crimes...connected to the abuse of minors."

'Havel,' by Michael Zantovsky

'Moral Agents,' by Edward Mendelson; 'Our Only World,' by Wendell Berry; 'There Is Simply Too Much to Think About,' by Saul Bellow

'One Nation Under God,' by Kevin M. Kruse