"This growth is a blessing, but also it comes with a lot of challenges," says Gustavo Valdez.

Gabe Wells wears glasses and a button-down shirt, is built like a tank and has several large, Catholic-themed tattoos. He got his first when he was doing a year of service after high school. It is an angel surrounded by ivy on his upper arm, a reproduction of a 15th-century illuminated manuscript. T

The Vatican reaffirmed teaching barring such persons from Communion without an annulment.

The public remains largely unaware of the full story of the nation’s interrogation practices.

ldquo Everybody does it rdquo is never a strong argument whether the statement applies to evading taxes cheating on school exams stealing office supplies or eavesdropping on neighbors For one thing it rsquo s untrue Everybody does not do it For another it rsquo s irrelevant But that is the

The vocation of the Catholic brother is often misunderstood Frequently they are asked even by members of their own religious order quot Why don 39 t you get ordained quot It is often an insensitive question You might as well ask a married man why he didn rsquo t join a religious order nbsp

Newshounds must be getting tired of reading about Obamacare especially if they have good health insurance from their employers and aren rsquo t affected by the law Premium increases happened on a regular basis before Barack Obama was elected president But when the House of Representatives calls

"Thinking of education in terms of planting seeds invites me to pray for a saintly kind of patience."

Announcing a two-year collaborations between 'America' and the American Bible Society

The church is living a historical moment. What happened in the beginning of 2013 will make this one of the most important years in the church’s already long history. The resignation of Pope Benedict XVI and the election of Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio—the first Latin American pope&mdas

This past week the new U S envoy to the Vatican Ken Hackett noted that the similarities are greater than the differences between the objectives of the Holy See and of the Obama administration The retiring Archbishop of Winnipeg Most Rev James Weisgerber is calling for a greater focus on justi

As America rsquo s Washington Correspondent I rsquo m supposed to report and comment on what rsquo s going on in Washington The two dominant stories are the continuing failures of the ldquo Obamacare rdquo web site and U S spying on our allies including the private conversations of heads of sta

quot Warily Schools Watch Students on the Internet quot So reads a headline in the New York Times today on a matter that 39 s now dominating the news and this blog nbsp The article written by Somini Sengupta nicely summarizes various points of concern arising from the interaction s of schoo

The latest political roundup from Robert David Sullivan at "(Un)Conventional Wisdom"

Tim Henderson 39 s Earliest Christianity blog has a notice that NT Wright will be webcast tomorrow at 11 am EST 10 am CST 8 am PST from Wycliffe College Oxford discussing his new two volume book Paul and the Faithfulness of God Since the book is 1 million pages long - oh scratch that 1 700 p

The setting was informal Ismael Moreno Coto S J known as ldquo Padre Melo rdquo wore shorts and sandals and sat on a couch in the living room of his Jesuit community Surrounded by friends coworkers and visitors from two U S delegations he spoke into his laptop computer Yet the impact was

Catholic Charities has left the building, in Detroit. At least temporarily. Even as the city of Detroit grapples with the implications of bankruptcy, because of a recent consolidation and reorganization the area’s Catholic Charities services have been going through an upheaval of their own. Th

Given a choice between the spirit and the letter, Pope Francis is clear: he chooses the spirit.