What can we learn from Johnny Cash about Christian discipleship?

Too little too late nbsp In an effort to quot define conclusively the posture of the congregation with respect to the behavior of Fr Marcial Maciel and his role as founder quot the nbsp Legion of Christ issued an apology today to Maciel 39 s legion of victims Many have argued that the order

On the Feast of the Franciscan Martyrs of Japan, Daniel P. Horan, O.F.M., remembers the faithful work and sacrifice of St. Paul Miki and his Companions.

In light of the continuing debate around religious liberty and the rights of religious organizations, as well as the conscience of the individual, we present here a collection of articles that have discussed, defended and articulated these issues over the past 70 years.Hobby Lobby "Corpora

A report highly critical nbsp of the Holy See 39 s response to the global crisis of clerical sexual abuse from the nbsp United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child nbsp was perhaps not a complete surprise giving the tone of the interrogation Vatican officials were treated to during their t

Government and allied rebels responsible for countless killings, maiming and torture.

A U.N. committee insists that the Vatican publish detailed statistics on clerical sexual abuse.

The closing of Catholic schools is now commonplace forcing dioceses and parishes to find innovative ways to care for the students and faculty at the schools that are shutting down Developments in the Diocese of Cleveland offer one possible response nbsp St John of the Cross Parish SJOC in Eucl

Latest (Un)Conventional Wisdom from Robert D. Sullivan

How can educators enable students to begin to see the parts that make up the whole?

Brian B. Pinter on what Scripture can teach us about taunting.

While walking home from a nearby shopping mall in Nairobi one evening, I was assaulted and robbed at gunpoint. Most of my friends, family and colleagues responded along two somewhat predictable and justified lines: 1) “Why were you walking in the evening? It’s dangerous—stop walkin

The House finally passed a five-year farm bill on Jan. 29, more than a year after the previous agriculture program expired and two days before a stopgap extension was itself set to expire. While Catholic groups and other rural advocates had been urging passage of a farm bill, their enthusiasm for th

My wife and I were standing in the courtyard of Mission San Juan Bautista, but my mind was on Rome. It was early March 2013. Pope Benedict XVI had just resigned, and Pope Francis had yet to be elected. For two weeks, Rome seemed to be the center of the universe. The Year of Faith was well underway,

Justin Bieber has gone from idol to tragic and familiar cliché in less than a year.

This ruse, enduring for days,will eventually cease, but noweven the birds mistake him for a log,or a stone the fleeting droughthas lifted above the current.Because there is a current, even in this cocoa-dark side-pool, and the solution to hidingso plainly under the sun is to glide asthe magnoli

The Vatican Congregation for Religious hopes to release its final report on the 2009-10 visitation of U.S. women’s communities “soon.” Speaking to reporters on Jan. 31 at the Vatican, Archbishop José Rodríguez Carballo, O.F.M., secretary of the Congregation for Institutes of Cons

The U.N.’s International Labor Organization in January offered a sobering review of global labor conditions and projections for the future that were not much more heartening. According to I.L.O. researchers, almost 202 million people around the world were unemployed during 2013, an increase of

"So, are you writing about the Jesus of history or the Christ of faith?” Why not both?