Two major decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court in the final week of its term left deep divisions among citizens across the country as the court ruled on the neuralgic issues of voting rights and same-sex marriage. On two consecutive days the court invalidated a key part of the Voting Rights Act and o

The most meaningful act of social justice in my life occurred very close to home.

Keeping Space OpenRe “Pursuing the Truth in Love,” by Matt Malone, S.J. (6/3): I have been reading America for over half a century now. While I appreciate fully your need to state the mission for this age as your predecessors did for theirs, reading your article was a little like reading

No one will ever make a Hollywood movie abut my sports career.

The final rules issued on June 28 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services implementing its mandate that employers provide coverage of contraceptives “will require more careful analysis,” New York Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan said in a statement. The H.H.S. final ruling updates p

for Oscar Christoph’s birthWax, little moon.Between toes and forehead,your fullness remembers itself.It’s still dark in your palms,darker still in your mouth,yet there beats and beatsa whole novelworld roundyour rolling ears,your found thumbs,your warm redfirmament—an outer-space s

The bell tolled last month for Francois Mourad, a Franciscan priest and hermit, who died on June 23 after soldiers linked to a jihadist group attacked the monastery near Ghassanieh, Syria where he had taken refuge. The Syriac Catholic Archbishop of Hassake-Nisibi told Fides news agency that Father M

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There seems to be no clear path to peace in the ongoing civil war in Syria.

Three months into his papacy the total number of followers of the pope’s nine Twitter accounts was more than 6.9 million. • For the first time the Davenport, Iowa-based Pacem in Terris Peace and Freedom Award is being taken overseas, to France, where it will be presented on July 7 to Jean

Pope Francis has created a five-person commission to review the activities and mission of the Vatican bank. The new pontifical commission, which includes two U.S. members, reflects the pope’s desire to ensure the bank’s activities are in harmony with the mission of the universal church a

The bishops declared their solidarity with the protestors "as long as they are peaceful."

Philosophers keep exploring the empty space left by the eclipse of religion in the West at least in the academic company they keep In his Religon for Atheists 2012 Alain de Boton perceptively described the consolations of religion and going further he suggested how atheists might ldquo despoil

Rumors are circulating that Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi is either fleeing the country or under house arrest as the deadline set by the Egyptian military expires Though it is dated June 3 I 39 m presuming this is a typo the president 39 s office issued a statement see below which seems

Some have noted the lack of response from the U S Conference of Catholic Bishops to the Supreme Court 39 s decision to toss out key components of the Voting Rights Act particularly compared to the U S C C B 39 s rapid condemnation of the court 39 s DOMA decision Today the bishops issued a sta

On June 26, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court decided two cases related to same-sex marriage, United States v. Windsor and Hollingsworth v. Perry. In Windsor, the U.S. Supreme Court determined that the definition of marriage set forth in DOMA, the federal Defense of Marriage Act, violated the Fifth Amend

One of the week rsquo s most dramatic responses to the Supreme Court decision overturning the federal Defense of Marriage Act DOMA came from U S C C B President Cardinal Timothy Dolan archbishop of New York when he called June 26 the day the decision was issued ldquo a tragic day for marriage

It took me three weeks to properly learn the Windsor knot four weeks to master how to keep my top button undone without getting a detention and about a month and a few misread train schedules to figure out my commute But it only took a few days to embrace a Jesuit education Seven years and two