As Pope Francis rests up for his three-day trip to the Holy Land Jewish extremists are putting out the word that Christians are not welcome in Israel There have been fourteen incidents of ldquo price-tagging rdquo that is defacing Christian sites with hate slogans in the last year seven in th

It is graduation time again and both The New York Times and The Washington Post have surveyed the campuses and their pundits have deplored the controversies in which the famous are invited to address graduates only to be forced to withdraw because various student or faculty groups object In ldquo

Ross Douthat is not the only New York Times writer to hit upon some very Catholic themes David Brooks 39 s recent column turns to St Augustine to reflect upon the path to personal knowledge The highest rung on the stairway to understanding is intimacy Our master-teacher here is Augustine As he

Vatican says no movement (yet) on sainthood for Oscar Romero.

Small group of U.S. Catholic bishops and Iranian ayatollahs begin dialogue.

If individuals and nations are serious about protecting human rights and promoting peace, they must do much more to curb the global arms trade and assist immigrants, Pope Francis told seven new ambassadors to the Vatican.There are "stories that make us weep and feel ashamed: human beings -- our

Venezuela is mired in a deadly and crippling standoff. Since early February, anti-government protests, largely student-led, have turned many of the oil-rich nation’s cities into scenes of street barricades and tear gas. More than 40 people have been killed so far.This is the crisis Hugo Cháve

Guided reflections through the Song of Songs and other Scripture texts

To hear Cardinal Walter Kasper tell it he became the pope rsquo s point man for reform in the Catholic Church thanks to a bit of serendipity or if you will Providence before anyone knew that Francis was going to be the next Roman pontiff The genesis of their partnership Kasper recalled during

Dying from AIDS, a man learns to give and pray.

The School of Education SOE at Loyola Marymount University the Jesuit university of Los Angeles has released a new study that provides encouraging news about the value of Catholic education From the official press release The study conducted by SOE 39 s nbsp Center for Catholic Education fol

The work of James Baldwin should be more present in U.S. classrooms and added back to the Common Core.

Twenty-Five It does not seem like a significant number Twenty-five cents can buy a gumball It rsquo s the atomic number for the element manganese It is the number on the uniforms of baseball players Mark McGwire Barry Bonds and Mark Teixeira It rsquo s the minimum age for someone to run for t

Jeremy Treglown’s approach in 'Franco’s Crypt' is microscopic rather than macroscopic.

Paula Huston’s 'A Land Without Sin' weaves together archeology, political revolution, the demise of the Mayan civilization.

David Pleins 'Evolving God' and Elizabeth Johnson, C.S.J.'s, 'Ask the Beast' take up the religious themes and sensibilities of Darwin's work.