Noah is a timely hero Whatever Hollywood makes of his story in the Bible Noah is a just man who believes that catastrophic climate change is upon him and acts According to Jesus rsquo account of the ancient narrative Luke 17 27 ldquo Everybody kept on eating and drinking men and women marri

There are days when doubt clouds my mood But not Tuesday I was headed out to Bensonhurst to scope out a possible column that morning On the way out along the Grand Central Parkway I suddenly thought of my friend Jack a classic post-Vatican II Irish street priest with a big personality and a lov

Like many others I lost track of the Duke lacrosse scandals once it became clear that the district attorney and the accuser were either not telling the truth or were deeply confused as to what that truth was Last I heard of the matter the state had dropped the charges and the students were starti

Every time Nathalie Piraino returns home to Rwanda, she sees a country advancing economically and politically and where the development of people, especially women, is foremost.She also has found that memories from her homeland's genocide 20 years ago remain vivid, not forgotten.Searing memories

Pope Francis will celebrate the Holy Thursday Mass of the Lord's Supper at a Rome rehabilitation facility for the elderly and people with disabilities.He will preside over the Holy Thursday evening Mass and foot-washing ritual at the Father Carlo Gnocchi Foundation's Our Lady of Providence C

Healing and reconciliation continue 20 years after Rwanda's 100 days of genocide, making the central African nation a strong example for troubled states to emulate, international observers said.Hutus and Tutsis, the country's primary social groups, now work alongside each other to rebuild a

Pope Francis offered more evidence today of his commitment to Vatican II era collegiality In a letter posted by the Vatican news service the pope announced today that he was elevating the position of the nbsp undersecretary of the synod secretariat to the episcopacy to demonstrate that quot we ca

The latest (Un)Conventional Wisdom from our politics blogger Robert D. Sullivan

In the first entry in the Bible Junkies Online Commentary on Galatians I discussed introductory matters concerning the founding of the churches to the Galatians the situation when Paul wrote to them when the letter might have been written and the type of letters which Paul wrote based on the com

Rainn Wilson known more commonly by his alter ego Dwight Schrute the hilarious character he played for nine seasons on NBC 39 s quot The Office quot has quietly been working on a project that tries to connect philosophy to pop culture a website that merges metaphysical questions and creative

Pope Francis has approved a new direction for the scandal-ridden Vatican bank as it seeks to improve transparency and compliance with international guidelines, the Vatican said on April 7.The bank, known as the Institute for Religious Works, was founded in 1942 to manage funds for Roman Catholic ins

Ukrainian Catholic bishop warned his church could lose its legal status.

What makes a priest or consecrated religious worldly? Is it care for finances or fundraising? Is it a taste for fine clothing, food and drink? Is it love of opera or devotion to televised sports? Does a worldly priest or religious simply mean an individual whose spiritual life collapses into a

Vox com the new journalism website headed by ex-Washington Post writer Ezra Klein formally opened for business on Sunday with a lead story mission statement called ldquo How Politics Makes Us Stupid rdquo It rsquo s a clever way to challenge and flatter readers at the same time Thousands of pe

On April 2 the Assembly of the Catholic Ordinaries of the Holy Land issued a historic communiqu asking ldquo Are Christians being persecuted in the Mideast rdquo The bishops answer lsquo Yes but rsquo because the question ignores the persecution of Muslims as well as Christians See below

A 75-year-old Dutch Jesuit who refused to leave war-torn Syria instead staying in Homs to help the poor and homeless was beaten by armed men and killed with two bullets to the head according to an email sent by the Jesuits 39 Middle East province to the Jesuit headquarters in Rome Jesuit Father

The number of refugees fleeing from Syria into neighboring Lebanon passed the 1 million mark on April 3, according to U.N. officials, a bleak milestone exacerbated by rapidly depleting social resources and a host community stretched to the breaking point. Just over three years after Syria’s co

More than a year after Scottish Cardinal Keith O'Brien admitted to sexual misconduct amid allegations by three priests and a former priest, the Vatican Congregation for Bishops is sending an investigator to the Archdiocese of St. Andrews and Edinburgh to collect testimony.A statement distributed

Linda LeMura, newly named president of Le Moyne College in Syracuse, is the first laywoman to be appointed president of a Jesuit college or university. The college, founded in 1946, is used to some firsts. It also was the first Jesuit school of higher education to open as a coeducational institution