Antoni Gaudí designed a church, La Sagrada Familia, that only the Creator of the world could inspire.

Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle of Manila said the Synod of Bishops on the Family was more than a series of discussions on divorce and same-sex unions and that the impact of poverty on families, especially in Asia, was a major concern of participants. “Poverty is really affecting the Filipino fami

This Thanksgiving I will thank God for the love and encouragement of my uncle.

Do Catholics recognize the moral imperative to build the economy cooperatively?

Church involvement could undermine aims of Hong Kong's Occupy Central.

Maronite Bishop Gregory J. Mansour of Brooklyn, N.Y., spoke in Nashville, Tenn., to Belmont University students on Oct. 22 about the need for all Christians to respond to persecution with “profound defiance,” which is markedly different from vengeful retaliation or submissive inaction. &

Over the course of this year, Russia’s international behavior reached new heights of aggressiveness, and talk of the return of the Cold War is on the lips of knowledgeable analysts. Perhaps the most egregious act was Russia’s response to the loss of MH17, the Malaysia Airlines jet that w

Burials that are dignified and safe are urgently needed for Ebola victims in West Africa, where corpses are frequently left unattended for days and then thrown into graves without ceremony, a U.S. church aid official said.“So many people are dying that there has not been the capacity to respon

Our NeighborsRe “Listening to Ebola” (Editorial, 10/27): If people want to know what America is all about, here it is. Sadly, greed still triumphs in health care. And too often fighting abortion overshadows caring for the millions of children who die every year for lack of basic necessit

Seven months after a delegation of U.S. bishops quietly met with Iranian religious leaders, their efforts appear to be on track. At a program on Oct. 29 on the dialogue and the relevance of moral questions about nuclear weapons, Bishop Richard E. Pates of Des Moines, Iowa, who met with Iranian ayato

The Vatican II document 'Lumen Gentium' turns 50 today, and is just as prophetic as ever.

To mark the 25th Anniversary of the killing of six Jesuits and their housekeeper and her daughter in El Salvador Santa Clara Magazine has devoted a substantial portion of its Fall issue to remembering and commemorating the awful events of that night and the circumstances -- the Salvadoran Civil W

After a litany of bad news sometimes a fella just needs to shop around a little on the good old internet for some happy news to restore his faith in humanity If that 39 s your aim this morning than you should skip the story trending today about Fort Lauderdale homeless advocates two pastors and

Cardinal heads now 'obligated' to present resignation at 75.

Two days last month I flew to Kansas City and next took the F train and walked to Pier 60 on the Hudson River to help celebrate the anniversaries of the National Catholic Reporter 50th and Commonweal 90th One in the ldquo heartland rdquo of America the other in the center of the world The lo

More thoughts to come but a striking pattern from Tuesday rsquo s election is how the Republicans made significant gains just about everywhere but in major urban counties You could call it a wave but it rsquo s also as if most of America stepped back from the big cities and academic enclaves that

'The Scriptures prepare us well to live life.'

In 2009 Arthur C Brooks President of the American Enterprise Institute in Washington D C published an article in nbsp BYU Magazine nbsp based on a talk he gave at the school arguing for the importance and value of charitable giving nbsp He advances mdash among many points mdash the counterint

Kathleen McChesney in 2002 was a top executive at the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI McChesney left the FBI after 24 years of law enforcement service there and became head of the U S Conference of Catholic Bishops USCCB Secretariat for the Protection of Child and Young People She signe