The obligations we have as Americans and Christians to the home of the Jewish people.

The Diocese of Baton Rouge has protested a Louisiana Supreme Court ruling that a Catholic priest must either break the seal of the confessional in a sex abuse hearing or face jail time On July 7 the Baton Rouge diocese issued a statement protesting the ruling against Father Jeff Bayhi who allegedl

TED’s motto is “ideas worth spreading,” which leads me to wonder: Worth spreading in relation to what?

James Carville nbsp is a New Orleans-based nbsp political pundit and media personality nbsp who is a major figure in the Democratic Party Nicknamed quot the Ragin 39 Cajun quot he rose to national fame as the chief political strategist of then-Arkansas governor Bill Clinton rsquo s successful

Australia's sacred Rock speaks in the elemental and universal language of natural beauty.

In recent posts I 39 ve addressed the role of parents in the modern world using as my starting point Jennifer Senior 39 s discussion in her recent and very good book All Joy and No Fun The Paradox of Modern Parenthood Having had a chance to review the quot Instrumentum Laboris quot working

New York N Y July 11 2014 ndash nbsp Father Matt Malone S J editor in chief of America announced today the appointment of Sr Mary Ann Walsh R S M as U S Church Correspondent Sister Walsh is the current Director of Media Relations for the U S Conference of Catholic Bishops and will

nbsp It is mid-summer and every home gardener is enjoying his harvest and sharing the bounty Right through my teenaged years and through my early twenties my grandfather kept a Victory Garden behind our home In midsummer when he took his midday break he would carry a picnic basket to the kitc

Pope Francis is well on the way to achieving a total and radical reform of the Vatican rsquo s finances That became abundantly clear on July 9 when the Australian cardinal George Pell the man he appointed to spearhead that reform presented the New Economic Framework for the Holy See at a crowded

Ramesh Ponnuru nbsp is a Washington D C -based columnist for Bloomberg View a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a nbsp senior editor nbsp for National Review nbsp magazine He is a regular contributor to nbsp Time nbsp magazine and nbsp WashingtonPost com His writing has al

On summer break, going back to the big ideas and central stories that animate Catholic education.

The Catholic bishops of Israel and Palestine made a renewed plea for peace today issuing a call for quot radical change quot as Israeli military retaliation against Palestinian rocket strikes intensified The nbsp quot Call for a Courageous Change rdquo nbsp was published in multiple languages b

Tanti anni fa as the Italians would say I was studying Italian at the nbsp Dante Alighieri Scuola per Stranieri nbsp in Florence just off the nbsp Ponte Vecchio I had already passed a year in Rome studying theology in the Italian language at the Gregorian University But I had arrived in the

A White House report has indicated that 24 state legislatures chose not to opt into the Obamacare Medicaid expansion this year implying an ongoing GOP resistance that Southern Catholic leaders fear will hurt the working poor According to the report relesed on July 2 only 26 state legislatures hav

Argentina and Germany face off on Sunday in the tournament's final match.

Bank must be 'a model of financial management rather than a cause for occasional scandal.'

The arrival of many thousands of unaccompanied immigrant minors to our southern border has reignited fierce debates over who is to blame how they got to the border and what to do about it We have witnessed the vociferous standoffs in Murietta Calif where the Border Patrol intended to process se

Dawn Eden is a Catholic convert author and speaker known for her work on sexuality and chastity She is also a survivor of childhood sexual abuse who seeks to share her healing process with others Her second and most recent book My Peace I Give You Healing Sexual Wounds with the Help of the Sain

Does today 39 s student appreciate sacred space Colleagues and I were recently discussing this topic noting that many of today 39 s students don 39 t have much of a notion of the sacred of a place or institution set apart from the rest of mundane experience a place that invites silence and pra