Professors John T McGreevy and Gregory Crawford chairs of the Core Curriculum Review Committee at the University of Notre Dame have published a letter in The Observer Notre Dame 39 s campus newspaper explaining the process underway for reviewing the University 39 s core curriculum The letter

Each year Portugal rsquo s leading newspaper Expresso hands out the Pessoa Prize mdash ldquo the Person rdquo mdash to a figure in Portuguese society who has contributed most to the culture It rsquo s the nation rsquo s most important cultural award Its recipients are writers artists musicia

In Asia says Hanoi Archbishop Peter Nguy n V n Nh n ldquo It is more suitable for us to speak of the life of Jesus in a manner more in accord with how He Himself preached two thousand years ago with His parables An eastern not rationalist fashion rdquo Age 76 now Cardinal Nguy n has s

Readings of the last four Sundays are powerful invitations to spiritual renewal.

Perhaps the most important thing about Abraham Lincoln—and what makes him so enduring in the popular memory—was the plain fact that he was so human.

ldquo The Gospel of the marginalized is where our credibility is found and revealed rsquo Pope Francis told the new cardinals as he spelled out clearly the direction he wants the leadership of the Catholic Church to take in the world today He did so in an inspiring and highly significant homily d

Parliament erupted into a brawl just a few sentences into the president's speech

Governor puts off executions, says system 'riddled with flaws'

Pope Francis created 20 new cardinals from 17 countries in St Peter rsquo s Basilica on Feb 14 in the presence of his predecessor Benedict XVI Being a cardinal is ldquo an honor rdquo but ldquo not a kind of accessory a decoration like an honorary title rdquo he told them As cardinals he

Another migrant disaster on the Mediterranean Sea captured Pope Francis rsquo attention this week Hearing reports on Feb 9 that 29 migrants had died of hypothermia during his general audience on Feb 11 Pope Francis once again urged solidarity with migrants who risk their lives crossing from Nor

Brian Williams draws my sympathy The NBC anchorman sits in the awkward position of having to be an easy-to-look-at newsreader and a model of absolute trust He never graduated from college though he did a stint at The Catholic University of America in Washington D C But like other newsmakers i

Cardinals from all continents expressed ldquo appreciation rdquo for the reforms already achieved or underway in the Roman Curia under Pope Francis particularly in the field of Vatican Finances but they recognized that there is still a long way to go before the reform can be completed They also

In East Africa they call him ldquo Bwana Yesu rdquo mdash ldquo Lord Jesus rdquo Berhaneyesus Demerew Souraphiel C M 66 has been the Archbishop of Addis Ababa Ethiopia since 1999 also the head of the Ethiopian Catholic Church an Eastern Catholic Church in full communion with the Holy Se

When Bishop Jos Luis Lacunza Maestroju n O A R 70 ordinary of the diocese of David Panam was told he was being elevated to the role of Cardinal he thought it was ldquo crazy rdquo And the fact is although Panama was in fact the home of the first Catholic diocese in the Americas it h

Life doesn rsquo t come with lines We draw those ourselves Of course without them the world would be so blurred as to lack definition though the danger is drawing lines that divide without purpose Whatever their original intention they can leave us detached from others who then appear as ali

A lesson in the 'invisible synecdoche'

While reading Carey Walsh 39 s Chasing Mystery nbsp Walsh is a professor of theology at Villanova University I came across this exposition of Moses 39 encounter with the burning bush which I found to be really illuminating Moses noticed something out of the ordinary the subtlety of the branc

Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas Feb. 11 urged Congress to work for immigration reform but not through the path it is currently seeking with increased border enforcement, tougher criteria for immigrant families seeking asylum and a quicker return of immigrant children to their homelands."These bills wo