As some African nations continue or contemplate a judicial and legislative clampdown on gay and lesbian people the Southern Cross South Africa 39 s Catholic weekly took an editorial stand recently ldquo It would require a very peculiar reading of the Gospel to locate Jesus anywhere else but at

I recently overheard an exchange between my sister and her four-year-old daughter one that apparently takes place frequently ldquo Who rsquo s better than you rdquo my sister asked in her best football coach voice ldquo Nobody rdquo shouted my little niece And I prayed that she will believe

Hollywood producers worry Christian viewers will object to "dark and intense" Noah.

Daniel J. Harrington, S.J., was one of the great treasures of American Catholic biblical scholarship. For nearly half a century, he was the premier chronicler of what was happening in biblical studies in this country and abroad. As a teacher, author, editor and preacher, he was the embodiment of the

We have all seen the black and white footage from that February day in 1964.  Teenagers by the thousands were screaming from balconies and behind police barricades. Four Liverpudlians—ranging in age from 20 to 23—emerged from a Boeing 707 appearing as though they had stumbled into a

The nation 39 s Catholic Schools recently marked Catholic Schools Week and during the recent celebration it seems we heard as usual a lot about Catholic education in the abstract Commentators spoke of Catholic education in terms of large concepts -- character formation moral formation and of

States should pay attention to Utah's solution to chronic homelessness.

Almost two weeks after the national March for Life rally in Washington, D.C., the Guttmacher Institute reported a 13 percent drop in national abortion rates between 2008 and 2011, making for the lowest rate since 1973, when abortion on demand was legalized in the United States. “No evidence wa

It is very difficult for European Catholics to make sense of the polarization within the Catholic Church in the United States. I grew up in Northern Italy and studied and worked for almost 20 years at the University of Bologna, my alma mater and the oldest university in Europe, founded in 1088. In t

Separation of church and state is prudent; separation from the political is inconceivable.

Americans are rightly proud of our tradition of religious liberty. The founders recognized that religious convictions cut very deeply into the soul, making people capable of great sacrifices—and often stimulating bitter conflicts and terrible persecutions. Thus we have the First Amendment and

A more deliberate approach to sacrifice during this Lenten season

Forty years after her mother's death, the author finds forgiveness in unexpected places.

Construction for 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics in Brazil sparks protests.

An emotional Cardinal Luis Tagle of Manila, Philippines, welcomed U.S. Catholic leaders on Feb. 3 to review recovery efforts after Typhoon Haiyan, saying that the work to rebuild devastated communities can show the world a church united in the service of people in need. • A statement released b

California's drought offers an opportunity to rethink human interference with natural forces.

The “Son of God” will probably enjoy box-office success. But does that justify portraying the Son of God as a blockbuster movie hero?

Bureaucratic overreach, a fundamental misunderstanding of the interplay of canon law with secular authority, a headline-grabbing “food fight”: these are just some of the criticisms of a recent broadside from a United Nations committee reviewing the Vatican’s global record on the pr

Anyone who has read about Bob Dylan’s early career knows that he shares a common trait with the eponymous hero of "Inside Llewyn Davis." Both of them could be, well, jerks.