Palestinian Christian institutions charged that Israeli police security measures during Holy Week and Easter hamper access by Christian pilgrims to holy sites in Jerusalem's Old City."The celebrations in the vicinity of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher and the Christian Quarter have been co

"I feel called to take responsibility for all the evil some priests—large in number, but not in proportion to the total—have committed and to ask forgiveness for the damage they've done with the sexual abuse of children," Pope Francis said."The church is aware of this

When I graduated from college and worked in an office for the first time I saw people drinking four five six cups of coffee every day I decided that I never wanted to take up that habit so I avoided coffee altogether Years later when I started teaching an early morning class at Red Cloud India

Commencement season is almost here and for Catholic colleges and universities this can get a little tricky A Catholic school must find a speaker who 1 offers something wise or inspiring 2 generates excitement and rouses seniors from the haze of commencement week revelry and 3 does not adv

Questions persist after long-delayed testing of the controversial ‘Jesus Wife’ papyrus

A new paper draws an intriguing conclusion to a question scholars have wrestled with for several decades: Why are Americans dropping out of church?One reason? They’re logging on to the Internet.Allen Downey, a professor of computer science at Massachusetts’ Olin College of Engineeri

Frans van der Lugt, S.J.—who on April 7 was shot in the head, twice, in front of his home in the city of Homs, Syria—had been living under siege for 20 months when, in January, he recorded a video message challenging the outside world to help. He ends this video, one that made him f

A new reminder of the precariousness of conditions in Lebanon because of the Syria crisis comes from the new president of Caritas Lebanon Maronite Father Paul Karam He urges the international community to step in to assume the responsibility of establishing and maintaining refugee camps for those

A Catholic convent near Jerusalem and a largely Maronite village in Galilee were damaged in recent weeks as a two-year wave of vandalism directed at Christians and Muslims in Israel and the West Bank continued.In late March, anti-Christian and anti-American graffiti was scrawled on the walls of the

This was sort of a Women rsquo s Week in American politics The Paycheck Fairness Act got its day in the U S Senate but couldn rsquo t get the 60-vote supermajority to overcome a Republican filibuster And new signs of Hillary Clinton rsquo s inevitability as the next Democratic nominee who else c

Meeting four victims of human trafficking, dozens of religious sisters and senior police chiefs from 20 countries, Pope Francis praised their coordinated efforts to fight against a "crime against humanity.""Human trafficking is an open wound on the body of contemporary society, a scou

A new translation of the Mass has been used in the nation’s Catholic parishes for less than three years, but there are signs that the language—often criticized as stilted and awkward—could be in for another edit.“We’ve tried it, we’ve lived with it, we think it ne

Bible films may be raking it in at the box office, but fewer people are reading the original and taking it seriously.The American Bible Society’s latest State of the Bible survey documents steep skepticism that the Good Book is a God book.“We are seeing an incredible change in just

Was Jesus married? Here’s why almost every New Testament scholar believes that Jesus was unmarried.

Killing Jesus is a sure and swift read nbsp Bill O rsquo Reilly and Martin Dugard write like newscasters rapidly analyzing facts Here is the entry into Jerusalem Just on the other side of Bethpage the two disciples stand waiting nbsp One holds the bridle of a donkey that has never been ridden

Russia is being roundly criticized in this country following its annexation of Crimea At the same time our two countries seem to becoming more and more alike This seems true both in the economic and in the political sphere Russia is now capitalistic and more democratic than in the past while ove

Historian of education Diane Ravitch's 'Reign of Error'

Edward Short’s 'Newman and His Family'

'A Double Life,' J. Michael Lennon's biography of Norman Mailer