The report will be released Dec. 16.

No less an authoritative voice than that of Michael Caine intones the professorial judgment ldquo We must confront the reality that nothing in our solar system can help us rdquo nbsp The irrepressible Matthew McConaughey responds ldquo Now you need to tell me what your plan is to save the worl

Twitter campaign calls for not just well-worded political indignation but concrete action.

You can admire police officers and still admit that they made a tragic mistake.

On Dec 3 a Staten Island grand jury decided not to indict New York City police officer Daniel Pantaleo in the death of Eric Garner on July 17 The decision arrives less than two weeks after a grand jury on Nov 24 reached a similar decision in the case of Ferguson Mo police officer Darren Wil

On Monday rsquo s Feast-day of St Edmund Campion S J perhaps the most illustrious and gifted of the British Jesuit martyrs Heythrop College announced that beginning the next academic year undergraduate students would no longer be enrolled Heythrop has been since the 1970s a constituent coll

I am excited to inform readers that I will be speaking this Friday morning in Tempe AZ as part of the National Catholic Education Association 39 s regional meeting It will take place at the Newman Center at Arizona State University My talk is titled quot Hashtag God quot Finding Faith in the

Appealing to Gov. Rick Perry "as a man of deep Christian values," the Texas Catholic Conference urged him to stay the Dec. 3 execution of Scott Louis Panetti and commute his sentence to ensure the inmate receives the proper medical treatment for mental illness."Our request for mercy i

Justices have moved toward the liberals’ position in recent years on issues of mental capacity.

Pope Francis expressed his hope that truth prevail and justice be served in the Vatican investigation and trial of Jozef Wesolowski, a former archbishop and papal nuncio, who has been accused of sexually abusing young boys.According to the attorney general of the Dominican Republic, where Wesolowski

Father Robert Rosebrough says divided town can be the place where transformation begins.

Bishop John Kudrick has served as Byzantine Catholic ordinary of the Ruthenian Eparchy of Parma covering several Midwestern U S states since 2002 Born in Western Pennsylvania to a Byzantine Catholic father and Roman Catholic mother he grew up with the Roman Catholic Mass and joined the Third Or

Television critic Willa Paskin writes in Slate about quick-burning obsessions in popular culture including public radio 39 s true-crime podcast ldquo Serial rdquo the first season of ldquo True Detective rdquo and the last season of ldquo Breaking Bad rdquo and hellip cronuts ldquo We ar

Protest leaders call for end to civil disobedience campaign as risk of further violence increased.

The benefits of a stripped-to-essentials form of Christian monastic contemplation.

Much of a sustained and successful spirituality hinges upon our memory on our ability to recall the ways that God has acted in our life St Augustine to take one example spends a good chunk of the Confessions investigating memory and its relationship to discerning God 39 s activity and will But

To her devotees, Amma is a concrete presence of the divine, a kind of living sacrament.

Former archbishop Jozef Wesolowski is likely to face criminal trial at the Vatican.

After watching firsthand as Pope Francis bowed his head for a blessing from Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew during the pope's Nov. 28-30 trip to Turkey, an American-born Orthodox priest felt a joyful disbelief."I couldn't sleep that night," said Orthodox Father Emmanuel Lemelson,

The Greek Orthodox flock in Turkey is estimated at no more than 4,000 people.