A national board reported "progress in developing robust safeguarding structures.”

For days we knew that our little one would be leaving us forever.

The process to beatify and eventually canonize the slain archbishop has been “unblocked.”

A Philadelphia judge dismissed three of eight murder charges on April 23 in the trial of Dr. Kermit Gosnell, a Philadelphia abortionist accused of killing infants who had been born alive at his abortion clinic. Gosnell was arrested in January 2011 and charged with seven counts of infanticide and one

John W. Donohue, S.J., was the last associate editor who worked exclusively on a typewriter.

I honestly cannot remember a time when I was angry on the sidewalk.

To treat students and teachers like objects to be measured is unjust and unhelpful.

I didn rsquo t know a great deal about Joseph P Kennedy before I began reading about him and from the little I knew he seemed an unsavory character He had made a large fortune some of it possibly from bootlegging he was the U S ambassador to Great Britain from 1938 to 1940 and supported appeas

I nbsp am going to have to nominate Kim Daniels for 2013 ldquo thankless task rdquo award finalist As the new spokesperson for not the U S bishops rsquo conference nor for Cardinal Timothy Dolan in his capacity as archbishop of New York but for the office of the president of the U S C C B

When I saw recently the excellent movie quot Disconnect quot about the destructive potentials in internet use I was led to reflect or notice the following items Item 1 In late February of this year I spent four days in Northern Minnesota giving some lectures at Saint John 39 s University

Stacie Beck rsquo s article ldquo Just Economics rdquo May 6 questions what the author sees as logical and factual inconsistencies within the ldquo social justice agenda rdquo Beck claims that the expression of Catholic social teachings into which our children are being catechized is illogica

Fifty years ago John Courtney Murray S J a former editor at America and a peritus at Vatican II looked at John XXII 39 s encylical on war and peace It is interesting to note that Murray nbsp the foremost expert on religious liberty who would help shape the council 39 s groundbreaking docume

In the first installment I set out the traditional Greco-Roman letter format and looked at the ldquo Judases rdquo and ldquo Jameses rdquo in the New Testament nbsp In the second installment I weighed the arguments on authorship and decided the best evidence points in the direction of the Ju

In the epilogue of his latest book, "The Pope's Last Crusade: How an American Jesuit Helped Pope Pius XI's Campaign to Stop Hitler," Peter Eisner offers an interesting insight on the men who held the seat of Peter during the 20th century.

Every once in a while there rsquo s a break in the bad news about the church The good news for several weeks has been the election of Cardinal Bergoglio of Argentina as pope His is a kind and fresh face of an elderly man with a heart and his symbolic gestures suggest that this new face may repres

Just weeks before Pope Francis, in his inaugural homily, explicitly urged listeners to protect the environment, two art exhibitions opened in New York City, both of which explore the environmental theme through extraordinary renderings of birds. Surely Pope Francis, whose namesake is the patron sain

Orvieto is an hour rsquo s train ride north of Rome about half-way to Florence Once you arrive at the Stazione Termine you rsquo ll need to take a funicular up to the city which sits on a high fortified butte overlooking the Umbrian plain It rsquo s worth the trip Life on earth doesn rsquo t