Properly defined, feminism is a philosophy that embraces basic rights for all human beings without exception.

'Every instigation to violence must be rejected.'

Maura Poston Zagrans is an American Catholic poet author and photographer Her book ldquo Camerado I Give You My Hand rdquo published by Image in August 2013 tells the non-fiction story of Father David T Link a Notre Dame University dean and lawyer who became a priest at 71 after his wife d

Immigration on the coasts and housing boom of the Sun Belt bolster regions' political clout

My colleagues and I began the new semester on Monday of this week with a day of retreat led by a Jesuit priest who offered three reflections on the spiritual life The first of his talks was on some of the lessons of the life of St Ignatius Noting that Ignatius had been kicked out of the Holy Land

Cardinal-designate Dominique Mamberti, the only official of the Roman Curia among the 20 new cardinals named by Pope Francis, said the honor binds him even more closely to the pope and the church of Rome.Pope Francis' announcement came just days before the cardinal-designate, the Vatican's f

He stayed, and hopes that will inspire young people to do the same.

Francis will be in U.S. to attend the World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia in September

A period of prayer penance and pilgrimage January 17-25 2015 will mark the anniversary of the 1973 U S Supreme Court decision Roe v Wade which legalized abortion throughout pregnancy The ldquo 9 Days for Life rdquo novena encourages nationwide solidarity in prayer for daily intentions i

Responding to Eric Metaxas 39 s recent op-ed in the Wall Street Journal nbsp concerning the scientific evidence suggesting a creator nbsp Francis Beckwith writes at The Catholic Thing that Metaxas quot confuses a question of natural science with a question of natural theology quot nbsp Beckwith

Reflection on U.S. 'racial divide' is personal for Belleville's bishop

What percentage of the incoming Congress has been educated by Jesuits?

For many years now I rsquo ve resolved to include in my Advent and Christmas reading Caryll Houselander rsquo s The Reed of God but the usual distractions have prevented me until this year nbsp It rsquo s a simple modest little book of meditations on Mary and the Incarnation and what it all mea

First African-American senator was a liberal Republican willing to work across the aisle.

Days before Christmas in the southeastern Mexican state of Guerrero Father Lopez Gorostieta was kidnapped from a local seminary He was found on Christmas Day having been strangled to death No party has claimed responsiblity nor is there any obvious reason for the deed But a month earlier Ugand

Pope Francis has announced that he will create 15 new cardinals from 13 countries who will have the right to vote in the next conclave almost all are bishops of dioceses from all continents and several are from nbsp lsquo the peripheries rsquo of the world He will also give the red hat to 5 ret

Report argues exclusion is "no longer comprehensible."

Mafia ‘betray the gospel,’ Italian bishops say in rare rebuke

Drawing upon a Dec 10 story in Catholic San Francisco the official newspaper of the Archdiocese of San Francisco Dan Morris-Young at the National Catholic Reporter recently gave further background nbsp on the archdiocese 39 s newly formed Office of Catholic Identity Assessment What will this of