The Vatican rsquo s ldquo mandate rdquo in which it oversaw the running of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious has ended mdash two years earlier than anticipated nbsp In a joint statement today from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and the LCWR both parties said that th

Join us May 7 at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs in New York City

This is the fifteenth entry in the Bible Junkies Online Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles This post examines the second arrest of the disciples of Jesus in Jerusalem on the Temple Mount For previous entries please now go to the Complete Acts of the Apostle Commentary where you can find links

A great news item about the recent Masters champion Jordan Speith who is a graduate of Jesuit College Prep in Dallas Texas courtesty of the Dallas Morning News nbsp

Eradicating male and female identities does nothing to solve the problem of unfair or disrespectful treatment based on people's gender, Pope Francis said."Getting rid of the difference is the problem, not the solution," he said April 15 during his general audience (Spanish version

Although the number of Central American migrants entering the U.S. has diminished in recent months, thousands remain incarcerated within secure detention facilities across the country without hope for release.After being apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border, families and children as young as 12 day

'American Reckoning,' by Christian G. Appy

'The Future of the Catholic Church with Pope Francis,' by Garry Wills

'White Man/Yellow Man,' by Shusaku Endo

The British charity Oxfam has appealed for an end to the fighting in Yemen and the opening of borders to allow entrance to desperately needed humanitarian aid. Nuha Al-Saeedi, an Oxfam program manager in Yemen, reports that conditions are getting worse each day as basic commodities run dangerously l

A new Kansas law banning an abortion procedure that results in dismemberment of an unborn child “has the power to transform the landscape of abortion policy in the United States,” said Carol Tobias, president of National Right to Life, on April 8. • Two notable passings in Catholic

The news, though ground-breaking, went largely unnoticed. The Vatican has given its clearance to open the cause on May 3 for the canonization of Dom Hélder Câmara, the “bishop of the poor” and one of the most influential Latin American church leaders of the 20th century.Cardinal Angelo

Three lessons from Disneyland for the Catholic liturgy

Faced with a fierce enemy driven by Islamic extremism, the Kenyan government has cracked down on funding for al-Shabab, the Somali group that claimed responsibility for killing at least 148 mostly Christian students at Garissa University College on April 2. The leader of the Catholic Church in Kenya

There are huge risks to talking about women, qua women, in the church.

It is 5:30 a.m., June 1995, as the rising sun breaks into my little backstreet hotel room in Hanoi, and the light trampling of hundreds of feet padding past my window shakes me out of bed and into my shorts and sneakers to join the multitude of morning runners. The mass is heading toward West Lake,

A Royal PriesthoodThe editors suggest all good things in “A Space for Women” (3/30), and I especially concur with Gudrun Sailer that the solution is not merely replicating secular structures. The problem of women’s roles in the church is a problem of an inadequate theology of

Women at Texas migrant detention center staged hunger strike to improve conditions