Amnesty International has issued a devastating report detailing summary executions, child abductions, sexual assaults, forced religious conversions and “ethnic cleansing on a historic scale” committed by the Islamic State militant group as it swept across northern Iraq from its base of o

The latest (Un)conventional Wisdom from Robert D. Sullivan

These are astonishing days in Scotland and in the rest of the UK The mood is unprecedented febrile fevered frenzied We are seeing and hearing developments that nobody could have foreseen precisely because we have never been in this situation before The Scottish Independence Referendum is now

Sister Joan D Chittister O S B is a Benedictine nun speaker and writer She is a member of the Benedictine Sisters of Erie Penn where she has served as prioress Focusing on feminist spirituality and social issues her web column ldquo From Where I Stand rdquo appears weekly in the National

As students and even teachers begin to plunge into the responsibilities of the new academic year responsibilities that can lead to many late nights and early mornings St Ignatius of Loyola ever the practical mystic reminds us that we better not ignore the need for rest In a 1536 letter to Ter

Government wants religious order to comply with interim rules on contraception mandate.

Challenged by poverty, violence, social norms

Catholic left "afraid and unprotected" after Islamist militants seized Tripoli and Benghazi.

Scott W. Hahn writes on “Dei Verbum” and the Biblical insights of Joseph Ratzinger.

The Vatican has published the names of the 253 persons who will participate at the Synod of Bishops on the Family October 5-19 Among them are cardinals bishops priests men and women religious 14 married couples and representatives of the other Christian churches Since this is an Extraordinary

In a policy shift with enormous implications the state of California rsquo s Department of Managed Health Care has ruled that Anthem Blue Cross and Kaiser Permanente cannot offer Catholic institutions health insurance plans that ask members to pay their own premiums for abortion procedures The mov

There was an article in Salon com on September 1 2014 titled 5 Reasons to Suspect that Jesus never Existed This is problematic if true for scholars of the historical Jesus but more problematic for the millions upon millions of people who believe in Jesus not just as a human being but also as a

Cardinal Dolan is getting heat He is grand marshal of the 2015 St Patrick rsquo s Day parade in New York and says he has no problem with the decision of the parade committee to allow gays and lesbians to march as a group in the oldest parade honoring St Patrick in America This is not a religious

A new plan to reshape the ACA to Republicans’ liking while keeping in place the law’s name

Pope Benedict XVI offers very helpful thoughts for religion teachers in 2009 address.

Debut report from new U.S. Church correspondent, Sister Mary Ann Walsh.

Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Cardinal Sean Brady the Primate of All Ireland less than a month after he turned 75 the official age of retirement for a bishop The Vatican gave no reason for the pope rsquo s decision but informed sources say it is directly linked to the cardinal rsq

Catholic dioceses of New York and Peoria in public dispute over Archbishop's remains.

In Google Hangout, pope helps launch worldwide social network for students

On the Ignatian Educator, surface searching vs. life-long epistemic questioning