At least four worshipers, three of them U.S.-born, were killed in an attack on a west Jerusalem synagogue on Nov. 18 by two Palestinians wielding a gun, an ax and a meat cleaver, police said.The incident was the latest violent event in the tense city where relations between Arabs and Jews have been

The term ldquo complementarity rdquo has been referenced frequently this week on social media and in traditional media as the Vatican hosts an international interreligious conference bearing the title ldquo The Complementarity of Man and Woman An International Colloquium rdquo The aim of the

Cokie Roberts, political commentator for ABC News, has stood for more than four decades as a prominent Catholic woman in the public.

Would unilateral action lead to more sweeping executive orders under a Republican president?

This is the fifth entry in the Bible Junkies Online Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles The first entrycovered 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 to the

Pope Francis denounced a "false compassion" that would justify abortion, euthanasia, artificial reproduction technologies and medical research violating human dignity. And he urged medical doctors to "go against the current" and assert "conscientious objection" to such

The Vatican has lifted its ban on the ordination of married men to the priesthood in Eastern Catholic churches outside their traditional territories, including in the United States, Canada and Australia.Pope Francis approved lifting the ban, also doing away with the provision that, in exceptional ca

Pope Francis called for preserving the family as an institution based on marriage between a man and a woman, which he said is not a political cause but a matter of "human ecology.""The complementarity of man and woman ... is at the root of marriage and the family," the pope said

A recently reassigned Vatican official has urged Pope Francis to take the issues of Communion for the divorced and remarried, cohabitation and same-sex marriage "off the table" for next year's Synod of Bishops.Addressing more than 300 delegates at the family and marriage conference in

The legacy of six murdered Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her daughter lives on in El Salvador.Jesuits from Central America and other parts of the world, along with hundreds of parishioners, commemorated the 25th anniversary of the murders. For demanding social justice in a country marked by

The remains of a missionary priest missing for months were recovered from a mass grave in the southern state of Guerrero, adding to the horror of the crimes and killings in a region now notorious for the disappearance and possible deaths of 43 teacher trainees.Ugandan Comboni Father John Ssenyondo w

A Maryland Catholic doctor who contracted the Ebola virus while working at a Methodist hospital in the West African nation of Sierra Leone died early Nov. 17 at Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha from the virus.Dr. Martin Salia, 44, was the third Ebola patient to be treated in Omaha, and the first pat

With an engaging illustration of economic inequity in the United States, Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley told an audience at The Catholic University of America that the lessons he learned as a student there too often are lost in politics and policy.Principles including belief in the dignity of eve

I 39 ve been taking a class of seniors through an overview of the Christian faith attempting to teach them why and how a clear-thinking person can believe in a loving God Some of my lecture notes are based on C S Lewis 39 s Mere Christianity and so I recently had the pleasure of returning to s

Possibility of families returning to there villages seems more and more remote.

Francis will attend World Meeting of Families, of North American stops unconfirmed

On November 5 America editor in chief Matt Malone, S.J., traveled to Spokane, Washington with Ann Curry and an NBC news team to interview Bishop Blase Cupich, the incoming archbishop of Chicago. Watch the report that aired on Sunday night November 16 on NBC Nightly News. A podcast intervie

AMERICA AND NBC NEWSNBC CORRESPONDENT: ANN CURRYNBC PRODUCERS: JUSTIN BALDING AND NATASHA LEBEDEVAFOR AMERICA: MATT MALONE, S.J.Editor’s Note: The following is an edited transcript of the NBC/America interview with Archbishop-Designate Blase Cupich. It has been edited for clarity, length

Pope Francis’ first major U.S. appointment will be installed today.

The well-publicized Nov 10-13 meeting of the U S Conference of Catholic Bishops seems to have left a lot of people yawning Maybe it was just the impression conveyed by media desperate for something spicy to cover When it comes to the annual fall assembly of bishops media sometimes forget they a