Number of unaccompanied minors apprehended at U.S. border doubled last year.

It is important for believers to step back and critically reflect on our practices as fans.

The Web reflects human nature in surprising and scary ways.

The devastating chemical spill in West Virginia shows need for greater oversight.

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

Voter disgust with Congress may be at an all time high, but (Un)Conventional Wisdom blogger Robert D. Sullivan isn't expecting a throw-out-the-bums election.

Five years ago I wrote a Lenten meditation quot Jesus the Prisoner quot America March 30-April 6 2009 I was interested in the theme because I was then reading a book written by Michael Kennedy S J Jesus the Risen Prisoner An Invitation to Freedom I was taken by how rarely we ever hear o

It rsquo s usually simplistic to think of an American political party as having a clear agenda for congressional elections Typically both parties are fine with candidates doing whatever works to win the handful of competitive districts The announcement of the Republican Party rsquo s ldquo Cont

With its recently announced expansion, Notre Dame is making a dramatic statement about the nature and future of education.

nbsp Pune India At the end of my first report on my 10-week trip to India I mentioned that I was on my way to Kolkata Calcutta and although I was there for only a brief four days it was a most interesting visit Kolkata as you will know was the capital of the British Raj in its early ye

Paul Elie at quot Everything that Rises quot has a nice magazine mash up over America 39 s Colbert cover v Rolling Stone 39 s Pope cover Some highlights quot Stephen Colbert nbsp on the cover of nbsp America and Pope Francis nbsp on the cover of nbsp Rolling Stone it rsquo s as if every Bell

Christians in Egypt and Syria threatened by civil unrest and extremist violence.

Study aimed explain sharp decline in the number of religious women in the United States.

State governments shrunk a bit in 2012 according to data released last week by the Census Bureau see press release or PDF report with total revenue dropping by 1 8 percent and expenditures falling by 0 5 percent But there were big differences among states in terms of how much they spent and how

The new this-should-be-talked-about book is a big one mdash 1 250 pages of 6 million words mdash yet it rsquo s a quick read All 6 million words are the same one word only printed 6 million times The author Phil Chernofsky tells the New York Times nbsp that each word mdash Jew mdash symboliz