Law has been 'utterly-life changing' for the 20 million newly insured

For a lot of reasons I had put off seeing ldquo American Sniper rdquo The thought of two hours watching a guy with a beard rifle and telescopic sight on a rooftop gain honor and fame by bumping off a minimum of 160 men women and children would neither entertain me nor make me love my country mo

Benedict Daswa, a layman, was killed for his opposition to the use of traditional medicines.

Sister Mary Ann Walsh sends her love and appreciation.

A few hours before the Super Bowl I happened upon some tweets from the Ignatian Solidarity Network opining over the kinds of advertisements they wish we rsquo d see during the game ndash ads about how climate change is real or the need for comprehensive immigration reform They even did some moc

Notorious apartheid-era death squad commander given parole after 20 years behind bars.

Money, not national psychology, behind the rise of dynastic candidates

From 1928 to 2003, the Catholic Book Club worked as a subscription service where America partnered with publishers to mail books to CBC readers. A (more or less) comprehensive list of 75 years worth of selections can be found here.

Billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch recently made headlines by pledging nearly 900 million to help elect candidates who support their libertarian strain of economic conservatism but the industrialists are also nearly doubling their investment in the business school of Catholic University o

It was on January 30 1882 that Franklin Delano Roosevelt the 32nd President of the United States was born mdash and that was 133 years ago It is hard to comprehend that a figure of modern American history can almost be counted in terms of centuries instead of years and in FDR rsquo s case almost

This is the tenth entry in the Bible Junkies Online Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles The first entry nbsp covered some of the major critical technical and background issues that will concern us as we read through and comment on the Acts The second post found here considered the prologue t

My column in the current print edition of America ldquo The Downside of Devolution rdquo looks at the question of whether public welfare is best served by national or local government Since press time there have been a couple of interesting news items about this tension First President Barack

Alzheimer’s. Racist. Proposal. Pregnancy. Cancer. Words are not weak. They constantly rewrite our scripts.

In recognition of Catholic Schools Week I thought I 39 d share a little bit of history from the schooling of Matteo Ricci the great 16th century Italian Jesuit missionary When Ricci was about ten his father enrolled him at the newly founded Macerata Jesuit College in central Italy According to

January 29, 2015Santa MartaPope Francis says ecclesial elites who form cliques and scorn others are privatizing the faith and not following the way of Jesus. His words came during his homily at morning Mass on Thursday (29th January) celebrated in the Santa Marta residence. The Pope’s hom

Nothing was expected of St Francis de Sales when he was born on August 21 1567 He was born prematurely and as a child he was regarded as delicate and sickly Yet somehow he survived and grew to adulthood Contemporaries described him as a sturdy man a pleasant man a religious man He was all

Architectural style has become an irresistible metaphor for cold, soulless bureaucracy

12 bipartisan bills introduced "to protect the most vulnerable out there."

Father John Garvey, a priest of the Orthodox Church and longtime Commonweal columnist, who died Jan. 20, "had a rare capacity for conversation, and especially for listening," said veteran religion writer Peter Steinfels.A former executive editor of the New York-based lay Catholic journal o