Three restrooms in St. Peter's Square will be remodeled

Two years of organizing and bargaining at Georgetown University came to a successful conclusion October 28 when adjunct instructors there ratified a proposed contract reached in September See also Kevin Clarke rsquo s Oct 10 post Adjunct instructors across the nation have been hard-pressed by ch

Photographic images helped to end the war in Vietnam a Vietcong prisoner shot point-blank in his temple a screaming young girl running naked after a napalm attack a Buddhist monk transformed into a human torch in protest of the war Since then American troops go to war under Pentagon-imposed

The Boston College Chronicle recently spotlighted the efforts of BC to remember the Jesuit martyrs of El Salvador through an art exhibit now on display on BC 39 s campus The exhibit titled quot One Night in November quot ison display through Jan 7 in the main lobby of O rsquo Neill Library

'What They Wished For,' by Lawrence J. McAndrews

'On the Left Bank of the Tiber,' by Gerald O'Collins, S.J.

Ecumenical Day of Solidarity feeds 'hope against apathy, fear, death and impunity.'

First there was dead silence and then there were tears.That is how the Rev. Robert J. Verrigni described the reaction of parishioners at St. Ursula in Mount Vernon, N.Y., to the announcement on Nov. 2 that their parish would merge with another and cease to celebrate weekly Masses after Aug. 1, 2015.

According to data collected in October by the Chaldean Diocese of Erbil, there are more than 10,000 Christian families who have found refuge in the suburbs of Erbil and other parts of Iraqi Kurdistan after fleeing Mosul and the cities of the Nineveh Plain before the advance of Islamic State militant

Among the subjects of debate and ostensible controversy that arose during the 2014 Synod on the Family and continue in its wake, one in particular captured my attention: whether doctrine can change or develop. The answer is: it certainly does develop. It always has.One of the synod participants, Car

Market Measures“Market Assumptions” (11/3), by Bishop Robert W. McElroy, is a thoughtful, well-reasoned and inspired explanation of Pope Francis’ statements on income inequality and how some cultural assumptions in the United States make a full appreciation of his critique and chal

My host paused with his hand on the lid as we stood before the long wooden box. “Are you ready,” he asked, “to see the ‘shawl’ of Mbah Jarik?” What awaited me in that container was a glimpse of Indonesia’s ancient Muslim traditions—traditions that are

If you have been paying any attention to California news lately, you’ve heard about the state’s devastating three-year drought: counties worth of farms decimated, whole towns without water and government officials proposing emergency legislation. This year has been thus far the driest ye

Catholic leaders in Pakistan protested the beating and burning on Nov. 4 of a young Christian couple accused of desecrating the Quran. “The government has absolutely failed to protect its citizens’ right to life,” said the National Commission for Justice and Peace of the Catholic B

American voters say the next Congress's top priority should be to fix itself.

There is no poem like a gravestone,that tersely worded, lapidary tercet,the name, the numbers, and the R.I.P.that are the skeleton key to all biography.Some lie embedded, trapdoors in the grass,while others rear their monumentalcornices and angels, like cathedralswhere worms receive the body’s

One man’s jouney from death row to a new life

The legacy of George W. Hunt, S.J., continues to grow with America's new literary prize.