A Romanian appeals court ordered the demolition of a recently completed 18-story office building in Bucharest, built in defiance of various stop-work orders, because of the threat it would pose to its neighbor, the Cathedral of St. Joseph, in the event of an earthquake. • Msgr. Kevin Wallin, 61

The biographer tempts the reader to imagine: This life could have been mine.

For more than 20 years, efforts to pass a far-reaching immigration reform have fallen apart.

Violence against women in India has been a problem for centuries, but the news of the gang rapes of several young women have provoked shame, outrage and now perhaps action. The Women’s Commission of the Archdiocese of Bombay (Mumbai) is one of the leading lights in this fight with its new camp

The impulse to stand out, it seems, has been overtaken by the impulse to fit in.

This Lent, take firm hold of your flaws and gaze in confusion and wonder.

In honor of our 5,000 issue, a reflection from John LaFarge,S.J., on the magazine's 2,000 issue

Exploring the mind, and work, of Henri Matisse

The measures were taken because of the past diocesan failures to protect children from abuse.

Finally, Immigration; All the President's Men; Vive la France?

Faithful TheologiansRe “The Noble Enterprise” (2/4): Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl focuses on the important aspect of the ecclesial foundation of theologians. The role of faith in the theological task places revelation at the very center and implicitly indicates the worshipping community as i

Entitlement societies and the devaluation of labor

"The people are dissatisfied with the Islamist regime," one priest said.

The U.S. bishops’ Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development has endorsed a national campaign to end the practice of sentencing people under the age of 18 to life in prison without possibility of parole. “While there is no question that violent and dangerous youth need to be con

No one in 20th-century church history has attracted more controversy than Eugenio Pacelli.

Thomas Jefferson was the closest thing to a philosopher-king we have ever had in the United States Jon Meacham rsquo s eminently readable and balanced new biography aims to recover the ldquo mortal Jefferson rdquo both philosopher and politician who blended the two roles in a way that reveals s

The most crucial swing vote in the 2012 election may have been cast by the late Rachel Carson.

Some of the best theology penned has been produced by novelists Take for example the figure of Jean Valjean in Victor Hugo rsquo s Les Mis rables If you haven rsquo t read the novel perhaps you rsquo ve seen the musical or recently taken in its film version In 19th century France Jean Valjea

Reactions from other sources continue as we wait to hear from the U S bishops the Catholic Health Association and Catholic Charities USA on the latest revision of the Department of Health and Human Services mandate on contraception One of the more exhaustive considerations of the various politica

I was reminded of John Milton 39 s famous line from his poem On Blindness quot They also serve who only stand and wait quot when I recently saw a stellar production of Samuel Beckett 39 s famous play Waiting for Godot at the Marin Theatre Company In fact waiting can be counter-productive to