In a statement released today the Catholic Health Association reports that it will continue to study the recent revision of HHS guidelines on the exemption from its contraception mandate for health insurance by religious employers but notes quot substantial progress quot in Obama administraiton p

The bad news truly discouraging is that a strong majority of the American people approve of the government rsquo s use of drones even when their targets are American citizens living abroad While the general figure is 65 percent even among Democrats it rsquo s a majority The Sunday editorial pa

Akinwande Oluwole Soyinka known as Wole born in 1934 is a Nigerian writer playwright and poet Recipient of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature he has fought for years for human rights and was imprisoned by his government during the civil war in Nigeria and Biafra for almost two years in the lat

nbsp For our Spanish readers a translation of quot The Pope 39 s Legacy quot by James Martin S J courtesy of Juan V Fern ndez de la Gala La renuncia del Santo Padre constituye un gesto de noble generosidad realizado en bien de la Iglesia a la que ha amado y servido durante tanto tiempo L

When immigration contradictions hit home

Initially suspicious of, but ultimately surprised by HBO's 'Enlightened'

Adam D. Hincks, S.J., on the discovery of the "God particle," which resulted in a Nobel prize this week for two physicists

Justice Antonin Scalia argues that judges should interpret, not legislate.

HHS is unwilling to accommodate for-profit corporations in the same way as religious institutions.

Caritas Internationalis, the church’s global charitable agency, is launching an appeal to help communities in the Central African Republic that are still reeling from attacks on towns and communities by rebels. The rebel forces started to advance in northeastern C.A.R. in December 2012. A ceas

Forty years later, the shock of Roe v. Wade remains.

Moral Depth NeededRe “The Hunted and the Haunted,” by John Anderson (2/11): Maya, in “Zero Dark Thirty,” is a stand-in for the post-9/11 generation, compressed between the clips and sound bites of the towers falling and the 9/11 taped calls on one hand and the aftermath of th

I recently took a cross-country bus ride that was anything but comfortable. After those in my row had experienced bloodshed—the bus bounced so vigorously that a man was thrown up in the air, hit his head against the luggage rack and gushed blood just a few feet from me—and a whole lot of

"The road will be long and difficult because of resistance, conflicts and tensions."

Though we cannot create an absolutely safe world, we can create a safer world.

On Jan. 29 at St. Mary Cathedral in Austin, Tex., representatives of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and four Protestant denominations in the Reformed tradition signed an agreement that recognizes the validity of one another’s baptisms. • The New Jersey Death with Dignity Act, a b

"My strengths...are no longer suited to an adequate exercise of the Petrine ministry.”

The Rev. Thadeus Nguyen Van Ly, a 65-year-old Catholic priest and human rights activist, and the Most Venerable Thich Quang Do of Vietnam have been nominated for the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize. Father Ly has been a prominent human rights defender since the 1970s, campaigning for religious freedom,

Tom Wolfe’s Back to Blood seems like a capstone to the writer's career.

The people of New Orleans must rely on their own pluck and wit to survive.