Can a new bipartisan coalition break the 'tough on crime' consensus?

Walking through the new St. Francis de Sales Hospital, Dr. Wilfrid Cadet surveys a nearly empty pharmacy and points to where storage units, desks and work stations will be located.He's just waiting for the materials to arrive.With an April 1 opening date looming, Cadet, the hospital's chief

Asked that God recognize these men killed for their faith

Francis: “I feel insignificant before the work you do risking your lives."

(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis delivered the homily at Mass in the Basilica of St. Sabina on the Aventine Hilll in Rome on Wednesday afternoon – Ash Wednesday – the beginning of the great penitential season of Lent. Below, please find Vatican Radio’s translation of the text the Holy

Doors open for New Ways Ministry

Depending on when you date its birth, it took rock music as much as a decade and a half to move from the pop charts to the Broadway stage, with 1968’s “Hair.” Hip-hop has been with us nearly twice as long—at least 30 years, if you measure by mainstream success—and as su

No one is supposed to go home empty-handed in American politics.

Word, gesture and substance come together in an act that is inherently communal.

In his 40 plus years as a bishop in Colombia Archbishop Jos de Jes s Pimiento Rodr guez did many extraordinary things He attended all four sessions of the Second Vatican Council mdash he is in fact one of the few remaining fathers of the council mdash and supported its implementation in Colomb

How can theology today best mediate divine and Catholic truth?

'The Liar's Wife,' by Mary Gordon

'Mercy in the City,' by Kerry Weber, and 'The Many Sides of Peace,' by Brayton Shanley

'Health Care as a Social Good,' by David M. Craig

There is a link waiting to be forged between civilian national service and post-service higher educational benefits. If pursued, this link could help ease the burden of student debt and help students meet the out-of-reach prices of higher education.

On Feb. 12, 2005, two hired gunmen killed Sister Dorothy Stang, 73, in a remote Brazilian settlement just off the Trans-Amazonian Highway. As a tireless advocate for the poor and landless in Brazil for more than three decades, the Ohio-born nun came into conflict with ruthless landowners. Three

At the center of the spiritual life is the simple courage to be quiet.

A policy that relies on detention of families is fundamentally flawed.