Joshua 24 1-2a 15-17 18b nbsp Ephesians 5 21-32 nbsp John 6 60-69 nbsp The Italians have a saying of indispensable insight Se non eacute vero eacute ben trovato ldquo If it rsquo s not true it rsquo s well found rdquo Some stories possess a truth that transcends mere facts With t

Cardinal Timothy Dolan R-NY Cardinal Dolan will offer a endorsement prayer during the Republican National Convention in Tampa next week From the AP Roman Catholic Cardinal Timothy Dolan will give the benediction at the Republican National Convention on the night Mitt Romney accepts the presiden

The dust up over Representative Todd Akin rsquo s statement that women who are raped rarely get pregnant has made the front page nbsp of The New York Times August 21 2012 Akin is a Republican pro life advocate whose campaign remarks were based on the publications of Dr John C Willke the former

Just posted online Kevin McCardle of the UCLA School of Management explains why radical and feminist are descriptors Christians should aspire to not condemn In an interview with John Allen of the National Catholic Reporter Cardinal William Levada the former Prefect of the Congregation for

Bishop Blase Cupich of Spokane responds to Nicholas Cafardi in the current issue of America Here we post the full text of his response Re ldquo Politics and the Pulpit rdquo by Nicholas P Cafardi 7 30 Dr Cafardi seems to imply that Archbishop J Peter Sartain of Seattle engaged in impermiss

Mid-August on a university campus is a time of greeting among people who are returning after months away ldquo How was your summer rdquo I ask a student who works at the circulation desk in the library ldquo Hot rdquo he says The hottest in U S history as a matter of fact Temperatures in

Medicare is critically important so a national discussion on the topic could be helpful But that is not the same as making Medicare a political football Rather than listening merely to the heated rhetoric being exchanged between the Republicans and Democrats on Medicare it is helpful to hear wha

The Chronicle of Philanthropy issued a new report today highlighting the giving patterns of each state in the US What have been dubbed ldquo red states rdquo tend to give at higher levels than ldquo blue states rdquo with Utah Mississippi Alabama Tennessee and South Carolina taking the top

The Chronicle of Philanthropy issued a new report today highlighting the giving patterns of each state in the US What have been dubbed ldquo red states rdquo tend to give at higher levels than ldquo blue states rdquo with Utah Mississippi Alabama Tennessee and South Carolina taking the top

More than 12 million Americans are looking for work these days and last week the U S bishops called attention to the tough economic reality faced by many Americans In a statement ldquo Placing Work and Workers at the Center of Economic Life rdquo Bishop Stephen E Blaire of Stockton chairman

A pretty damning analysis from the British weekly OF ALL the organisations that serve America rsquo s poor few do more good work than the Catholic church its schools and hospitals provide a lifeline for millions Yet even taking these virtues into account the finances of the Catholic church i

On the feast of Saint Bernard August 20 I am unlikely to celebrate his preaching of the Second Crusade Although he was ardent in fighting schisms and heresies in the church they were schisms and heresies so long now out of date that they do not much interest us today But he is also remembered

Is there a break in the USCCB rsquo s united front on fashioning a just budget With Mitt Romney rsquo s selection of Wisconsin rsquo s Rep Paul Ryan as his running mate how the government taxes its citizens and allocates its resources is receiving renewed scrutiny Paul Ryan is the author of wha

Proverbs 9 1-6 Ephesians 5 15-20 John 6 51-58 The best thing about the second half of life is figuring out what happened in the first and often the moment of insight comes when the smallest of memories is poked My mother has grown accustomed to questions from me that prompt her to reply ldquo

This guest blog comes courtesy of the Rev Michael P Orsi research fellow in law and religion at the Ave Maria School of Law Monsignor William J Lynn former Secretary for the Clergy in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia has been sentenced to 3-6 years in prison for child endangerment A j

The Labor Day Statement of the USCCB has appeared and offers important thoughts for Christians navigating the challenges of the Great Recession Writing in his capacity as Chair of the USCCB Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development Bishop Stephen Blaire of Stockton reminds us that over

In the Book of the Prophet Isaiah 43 19 we read ldquo See I am doing something new Now it springs forth do you not perceive it In the desert I make a way in the wasteland rivers rdquo Like many others over the past weeks and months I have been perplexed by the Vatican assessment of the

Pablo Picasso once famously said that art is a lie that tells a truth He rsquo s right There is something artificial about a work of art No matter how realistic the novel or painting might be we none-the-less recognize the presence of an artist the artificer in the work of art And that rsquo