Frank Brennan SJ is one of most well known Australian Catholics nbsp The Australian Jesuit priest and lawyer has been in the forefront of human-rights work and has spent much of his time working on behalf of the Aboriginal peoples in his country nbsp On his Facebook page he has weighed in on t

In their ongoing campaign to make a recent editorial from America completely irrelevant thanks USCCB the bishops have issued another caution on the upcoming budget debtates Also see Circle Drawn Around Social Services in U S Budget Bishops Call on Senate to Protect Poor and Vulnerable P

It s proved difficult to get another Catholic as president into the White House but it seems we are locking down the position of House Chaplain Eleven years ago after some controversial missteps Chicago s Father Dan Coughlin became the 59th chaplain of the House of Representatives and the fir

From the New York Times House Speaker John A Boehner will nominate the Rev Patrick J Conroy a Jesuit priest and former Georgetown University chaplain to become the 60th House chaplain ldquo We are honored that Father Conroy has agreed to serve as House chaplain rdquo Mr Boehner said in a s

The Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams is very annoying He says the thing that really ought not to be said at the moment when nobody wants to hear it and says it what is more with gentle force causing people to stop in their tracks and reconsider It is a very unpopular thing to do esp

The local diocesan newspaper here in the Archdiocese of St Paul and Minneapolis The Catholic Spirit nbsp has a short piece on some comments the Pope sent to the Pontifical Biblical Commission whose members were meeting from May2-6 to discuss Inspiration and Truth in the Bible The Pope accordi

After a bishop pleaded guilty today in an Ottowa court of possessing child pornography -- 588 images 60 videos -- the Vatican said it will be following canonical procedures against him resulting in the appropriate disciplinary or penal measures Given that Raymond Lahey stood down as head of t

In the midst of all the important things going on in the church and the world is there room for another word on Lady Gaga If influential theories of popular culture are correct there is more reason than ever because popular media culture -- for better and for worse -- contributes to creating an

Sarah Palin possesses an uncanny ability to make even a somewhat reasonable position on any given issue sound extremist offensive condescending and ignorant at the same time And as the star s shine fades fast her statements - if 140 characters can be called that - become more desperate Conside

In case you ve not been following the dramatic saga of William Morris the Australian bishop of the Diocese of Toowoomba removed by the Vatican after an apostolic visitation led by Archbishop Charles Chaput and brought on by Morris s comments on women s ordination in 2006 here s nbsp one of the

Judging by their thrilled tweets in many languages the first ever Vatican-hosted bloggers conference yesterday was a great success Quite what it will lead to nobody seems to know but the verdict was that building a bridge between Rome and the Catho-blogosphere will bear much future fruit and th

Editorial misadventure of the century award lt This story was corrected in the seventh paragraph to say commandos were prepared to capture bin Laden alive not Obama gt U S commandos knew bin Laden likely would die By Mark Hosenball ndash Mon May 2 11 47 pm ET WASHINGTON Reuters ndash U

A symbol of Catholic piety comforted at least one person during the tense moments when President Obama and his top advisors watched and waited for news during the operation that ultimately killed Osama bin Laden From the New York Times On Sunday afternoon as the helicopters raced over Pakistani

Today should have been an easy day to die without notice considering the geopolitical enormity of the killing of Osama Bin Laden nbsp But the obituaries report the death of another notorious figure Rene Emilio Ponce blamed for slaying of priests dies at 64 From the LA Times Reporting from San

Responding to reports of the death of Osama bin Laden Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi the Vatican spokesman released a brief written statement Osama bin Laden as we all know bore the most serious responsibility for spreading divisions and hatred among populations causing the deaths of innume

The more you think about the resurrection the more bizarre it seems Bizarre in the sense of out of the ordinary peculiar odd - you can look up more synonyms on Microsoft Word I do not mean that it seems unreasonable oddly which some people might initially suspect for if one posits a living G

As someone who worked at Ground Zero in the days and weeks following 9 11 I rejoiced to hear that Osama Bin Laden rsquo s long reign of terror which had dealt death destruction and untold misery to millions across the world had finally come to an end nbsp As a Christian though I cannot rejoic

Today the Vatican s spokesman Federico Lombardi S J released this statement on the death of Osama Bin Laden Osama bin Laden as we all know bore the most serious responsibility for spreading divisions and hatred among populations causing the deaths of innumerable people and manipulating rel