Diving headfirst into college life at Wyoming Catholic.

A collision over human rights appears inevitable at the U.N. Security Council after Japan and the European Union circulated a draft resolution in October that calls on the Security Council to refer North Korea to the International Criminal Court in The Hague. Forty-three countries have so far signed

Community SolutionsI would encourage readers to read Mr. Kennedy’s essay, “Dignity For All” (10/20), carefully, beginning with, “We convinced the government to put the park under local control…. We set up a community reinvestment fund so that a portion of every entranc

On Nov. 16, 1989, six Jesuit priests, the community's housekeeper and her daughter were executed in El Salvador. Jon Sobrino, S.J., reflects on these 'crucified people.'

No longer are synods stage-managed pageants that simply ratify the pope’s decisions.

Thinking with the church in El Salvador

After 2014 Synod, the time for the real work and outreach has come.

The recent extraordinary assembly of the Synod of Bishops is likely to go down as a milestone in the history of the church. It was the first time since Paul VI established this organ of collegiality on Sept. 15, 1965, that the assembly “truly functioned as a synod and not a staged gathering of

As the occasional wag has said The New York Times is fascinated by the Catholic Church because it cannot imagine any other institution that claims infallibility That came to mind October 26 when columnist Ross Douthat cavalierly suggested that Catholics help Pope Francis exercise his Petrine minis

Sister Mary Prudence Allen R S M is an American Catholic philosopher and member of the Religious Sisters of Mercy of Alma Michigan A member of the Catholic chaplaincy team at Lancaster University in England since November 2013 Sister Prudence was previously chair of the philosophy department a

Tremors in European political life are nothing new nor is mass disaffection with conventional politics but what we rsquo re seeing at the moment speaks of a larger malaise Europeans in large numbers are not only questioning the remote and bureaucratic political institutions of the European Union

Christian politicians have obligation to work not just for the "hard-working middle class," but also for the immigrants, poor, unemployed, underpaid and homeless.

God remains the one who set all of creation into motion

Why does so much of Pope Francis 39 speech seem to be haunted by the Devil quot For Francis the Devil is not a myth but a real person quot explains Father Thomas Rosica C S B of Salt and Light TV in a new video that is part of nbsp The Living Word collaboration between America nbsp and th

Cardinal Francis George O M I of Chicago gives up pastoral governance of the Archdiocese of Chicago on Nov 18 when Archbishop Blase Cupich becomes Chicago rsquo s next episcopal leader Here is an e-mail Q amp A that Cardinal George a member of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate O M I granted t

In the Service of the Word The Catholic Media amp The New EvangelizationA symposium to mark the 50th Anniversary of the Decree on Social Communications of the Second Vatican Council nbsp Co-sponsored by America nbsp and Saint Joseph rsquo s Seminary and College nbsp When December 13 2013 nbsp W

This is the second entry in the Bible Junkies Online Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles The first entry covered some of the major critical technical and background issues that will concern us as we read through and comment on the Acts In this the second post we start to consider the text of

(Un)Conventional Wisdom on the 2014 midterms

In letter, leaders quote extensively from the Quran to rebuke ISIS' tactics and actions.

Synod calls the faithful 'to walk alongside people in difficult or exceptional situations.'