U.S. bishops gather in Baltimore for general assembly.

Acknowledging that families come with complications, the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops reminded his fellow bishops Nov. 10 that their role is to accompany their family of the church through their fears and concerns."Evangelizing means witnessing to our hope in Jesus,&quot

In 1814 John Adams wrote to Thomas Jefferson that he was unhappy with the Restoration of the Society of Jesus. Read today, the expression is surprising. One of the fruits of the revolution was religious freedom, and the American Catholic Church, concentrated in Maryland and Philadelphia, at that tim

Vantage Point 1989: 25 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a look back at the editors' take on 'the momentous implications of Nov. 9.'

This is the fourth 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

The Vatican's new rules for budgeting and financial reporting, which will go into effect Jan. 1, call for heightened transparency and consistency in the church's central administration and underscore the oversight powers of two economic bodies Pope Francis established in February.In one sign

Commemorating the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Pope Francis said the sudden end to the division of Europe was prepared by the prayers and sacrifice of many people, including St. John Paul II.After reciting the Angelus prayer Nov. 9 with visitors in St. Peter's Square, Pope Fr

It may be time for d tente between youth-oriented programs and parishes I offer this suggestion after hearing about a parish on Long Island which prepared a sixth grade reconciliation service for its religious education students Only two-thirds of the expected students showed up The reason The s

Democrats are unified on major issues, leaving little opening for new insurgent candidates.

Burke appeared out of step with the current pontificate.

In a series of top level changes in the Roman Curia Pope Francis has appointed the English-born Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher as Secretary for Relations with States ndash the third highest position in the Vatican nbsp nbsp nbsp He succeeds the Moroccan-born Archbishop Dominque Mamberti wh

Of late I 39 ve had the chance to lead a local group of Catholic faculty in faith formation and one of the themes I addressed is the image of Christ as the divine physician A starting point for this image are Christ 39 s numerous healing miracles but especially his words quot Those who are w

The love between a man and a woman stands as an image of the love of God. The call to family life is written into human nature. This vocation takes the form of a demanding voyage that is sometimes full of conflict—as is all of human life, after all. The vital force, the human energy contained

On the day after the midterm elections, pundits who misjudged the Republican wave confidently explained what it meant, Democrats played blame games and Republicans debated whether cooperation or confrontation is the best way forward. The sweeping Republican victory was shaped by history, geography a

Although the Supreme Court just a few weeks ago declined to accept any of several challenges to rulings making same-sex marriage legal in various states, a 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision Nov. 6 could lead to another shot at the high court weighing in on a nationwide approach to such unio

Documents answer when archdiocese learned of abuse and what church officials did about it.

Just days before the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops opens its annual fall meeting, German Cardinal Walter Kasper, often called the pope’s theologian, had a not-too-subtle message for the American church.Kasper told a standing-room-only crowd at Catholic University that Pope Francis wants

The Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference called on the Confederation of African Football to postpone the Africa Cup of Nations 2015 soccer tournament, scheduled for Jan. 17 to Feb. 8, because of the Ebola threat. • New light is shining on the Sistine Chapel after a state of the art LED ligh

A large cream colored mantiscaptured me todayby a wisp of my hairnear the nape of my neck. I flitted it like a leafthat fell from the aspen treebeneath which I read,not knowing the mystery that found me. Unfazedby my flitting, it regroupedto catch me againby the bridge of my glasses. 

The last thing Abu Sabah ever pictured in his life was being homeless and living in a tent in a park somewhere.But that is exactly what he and his family are experiencing in this Christian enclave outside of Irbil, the capital of the Kurdistan area of northern Iraq.Sabah, a Syriac Catholic from the