Death Pulls Ahead; A Bumpy Road to Obamacare; Faith in the System

Can the market play a role in helping the poor? Readers respond to 'Just Economics.'

A new state department report cited growing religious persecution in Arab Spring countries.

Father Greeley was perhaps most widely recognized for the more than 60 novels he wrote.

Many of us learned these songs not in school or from the media, but from their use in church around all our national holidays.

The patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church in Baghdad denounced a recent series of car bombings and shootings in cities in Iraq that left at least 54 people dead and dozens more injured. Patriarch Louis Sako said on May 20 that the current violence is between minority Sunni and majority Shiite Mu

'Say Yes to the Dress' is strange and ridiculous. And, for some reason, I keep watching.

I never met Andrew Greeley, but like many people, I felt as if I knew him.

More than a million immigrants have been deported from over the past five years.

From 2013: Enforcing marijuana laws seriously drains social resources and contributes to the nation’s unconscionably high incarceration rate.

This week happens to be the annual if unofficial ldquo theology week rdquo It began last weekend with the annual meeting of the College Theology Society CTS held this year at Creighton University in Omaha Nebraska and will conclude this weekend with the annual gathering of the Catholic Theo

Comprehensive immigration reform legislation barely cleared its first hurdle in Congress in May with the approval of the Senate Judiciary Committee, but the Catholic Legal Immigration Network Inc., known as CLINIC, is already gearing up to help a potential pool of 11 million people apply for legaliz

The life of Blessed John XXIII is a lesson in how obedience and trust in God lead to an interior peace that is naturally recognized by and shared with others, Pope Francis said.Joining a pilgrimage of 3,000 people from the late pope's home diocese -- Bergamo, Italy -- Pope Francis prayed at the

Some items to note today at America nbsp Pope Francis on Pope John XXIII 39 Faith Leads to Interior Peace 39 nbsp The life of Blessed John XXIII is a lesson in how obedience and trust in God lead to an interior peace that is naturally recognized by and shared with others Pope Francis said nb

In the first entry in the 1 Thessalonians Bible Junkies Commentary I began by looking at introductory matters which were comprised of comments on the nature of a Greco-Roman letter and the background of Paul rsquo s activity in Thessalonica that we know primarily from Acts of the Apostles and par

Selected essays spanning 50 years from the priest and author

A moving tribute to Father Andrew Greeley the influential American Catholic priest sociologist and contributor to America magazine nbsp May he rest in peace nbsp Watch Andrew Greeley on PBS See more from Religion amp Ethics NewsWeekly

Satin capes. Leather shoes. Embroidered stoles. Ermine trim. Gold rings. What sounds like a list of extravagant accessories from a fashion magazine inspired much discussion during the recent papal transition. Naturally, news reports and expert analysis focused on the historic nature of Benedict XVI&

T M Luhrmann is once more pressing her case that religion is less about belief than about belonging On Thursday rsquo s New York Times op-ed page the Stanford anthropologist and frequent Times guest columnist argues that many of today rsquo s Evangelicals even when they don rsquo t believe adh

Grandma you want to play Mass quot quot Play Mass How do you play Mass quot I hated to think this about my own Grandma Klein especially as she was staying several days with us that summer but she was a little slow She wasn rsquo t good at playing Candy Land and in summer who wanted to pl