Bishops from North America, Europe and Africa called on international leaders to act immediately so people living in the Gaza Strip can have access to basic necessities.“Gaza is a man-made disaster, a shocking scandal, an injustice that cries out to the human community for a resolution,”

Through tragedy and hardship, Robert Maloney discovers the resiliency of hope.

A Mexican bishop has rebuked the federal government for sending soldiers to seize the weapons of self-defense groups formed to fight off violent drug cartels and criminal gangs in the western state of Michoacán. Bishop Miguel Patino Velázquez of Apatzingán said the strategy was wrong and targeted

Adam Lord Gifford (1820–87), a philosophic man with considerable wealth, bequeathed to four universities in Scotland an endowment to support work regarding natural theology. For the more than 100 years since that gift, noted thinkers and writers have been drawn to Scotland to share their resea

A Vatican study group is urging world leaders to stop the flow of arms into Syria and to press for an immediate and complete cease-fire there without political preconditions. “Political transformation is needed,” its written statement said, but “it is not a precondition for ending

At my father’s recent funeral, a priest approached me in order to marvel out loud, as he had done before, that he was amazed to discover through conversations with my father that this 80-year-old, lifelong practicing Catholic was such a “liberal.” Nobody in my childhood home would

The rebuilding of South Sudan requires an intellectual endeavor to replace the colonial state of mind.

In many instances I try to teach them how to read and understand “Humanae Vitae” as a real, authoritative document.

A Pew Research Center study issued on Jan. 14 shows another increase in hostility toward religion by most of the world’s 198 nations. The share of countries with a high or very high level of social hostility involving religion reached a six-year peak in 2012, the study said. The number of nati

Challenges ahead for parents and regulators as legal recreational marijuana sales begin

More than ever, the cross exposes the pretensions of our threadbare metaphysical systems.

The Gun Control LobbyRe “Inexcusable Inaction” (Editorial, 12/9): I am deeply touched by the clarity and passion with which the editors have pursued the idiocy of our current gun law impasse. In sympathy with this cause, I have a plan to achieve victory.Right now legislators are reluctan

They have the storm of the centuryevery winter in Buffalo. Buffalo is like a pilgrim site for snow.Buffalo is Capistrano for blizzards. Think of the word, “snow-bank.”Think of Buffalo as the Federal Reserve. Imagine Lake Erie as your in-lawsand know how Buffalo feels 

RealClearPolitics rsquo Sean Trende assesses this fall rsquo s U S Senate races and concludes that the GOP is being underestimated Based on 2010 and 2012 election data Trende writes ldquo Senate races begin to converge on presidential approval doubtless a function of the much-remarked-upon po

What does the "liturgy" of an outdoor musical festival offer young people that church does not?

Violence has worsened between police and pro-European Union demonstrators in Kiev, Ukraine.

I had heard many rumors about Columban Fr Donal McIlraith rsquo s book on the Revelation of John Everybody rsquo s Apocalypse A Reflection Guide published 1995 long before I had seen it or laid hands on it nbsp Other Catholic biblical scholars most of whom had studied at the Gregorian Univer

Pope Francis will meet with U.S. President Barack Obama at the Vatican March 27, the White House announced and the Vatican confirmed.The spring meeting would be Obama's second visit to the Vatican as president, but his first with Pope Francis, who was elected March 13, 2013.The White House said

The documentary Mitt premieres later this week on Netflix and the New York Times interviewed the former presidential nominee about his campaign experiences Romney exercises the prerogative of rejected candidates and offers suggestions on how the republic can avoid repeating its terrible decision

A prospective reader of this blog noting its title might assume that it might be about contemplation the meditative techniques and practices which help us see ourselves and the world differently In fact it is about my reactions to an extraordinary and large the largest exhibit ever held in San