In the summer of 2009 after years of dialogue between the US Conference of Catholic Bishops Catholic hospitals typically operated by religious orders and labor unions that represent health care workers the three groups issued a joint document on ldquo Respecting the Just Rights of Workers rd

I spent Friday night and much of Saturday at the Lost conference at Fordham University a conference aimed at understanding better the relationship between the Catholic Church and 20-somethings Read my fellow blogger Michael O Loughlin s commentary here I served as moderator of a session on t

This is part of an occasional series on How To Succeed in College For previous posts click on the author s name above Not long ago and fairly far away one of a leading university rsquo s best students told me that he and his peers got good grades without actually reading the books assigned for

Last month we featured a guest blog post from Jeffery M Abood on the plight of Christians in the Middle East Here we offer a response from Rabbi Eugene Korn Rabbi Korn is director of Israel rsquo s Center for Jewish-Christian Understanding and Cooperation where he directs its Institute for Theol

What role does the church play if any to twenty-something Catholics in the United States This was the question that a group of Catholic thinkers writers pastors lay ministers and other church leaders attempted to answer this weekend at a conference held at Fordham University called Lost Twe

If the cold weather is getting you down nbsp ldquo The Lost Valentine rdquo a film starring Betty White and Jennifer Love Hewitt CBS 9 8C is the perfect reason to stay inside tonight The film is a collaborative effort between Hallmark Hall of Fame Productions and Paulist Productions the la

The readings for the Fourth Sunday of Ordinary Time nbsp treat us nbsp to a surfeit of riches There is a beautiful passage from Zephaniah 2 3 3 12-13 another from 1 Corinthians 1 26-31 and the Beatitudes from Matthew rsquo s Gospel 5 1-12a The struggle this week is not what to say but wh

Cambridge MA It is the start of the new semester at Harvard and these weeks are more than ordinarily busy mdash even as the relative quiet of the weeks between semesters and our 60 inches of snow makes hibernation seem a better idea than robust activity Classes have begun and I am team-teach

In what will surely rank as one of the least necessary travel alerts in State Department history a warning indeed was issued today advising Americans to reconsider vacation plans in Egypt as a popular uprising in a number of ancient metropolises taunts a massive clampdown from Egypt rsquo s aged s

This moving first person account from the shepherd of Tucson has just been posted online A sample nbsp I experienced throughout that awful week of suffering a people fervent in prayer a people caring and concerned for one another a people doing countless acts of kindness to ease the pain and so

Here s nbsp a bit of news nbsp that I ve known about for some time and have been eagerly anticipating sharing with you nbsp Now that the embargo has been broken here goes Liturgical Press one of the premier Catholic publishing houses is launching a new daily prayer resource in August 2011

Those sounds you heard a few days ago turned out to be the exploding heads of Connecticut Democrats During his announcement last week that he would not seek re-election U S Senator Joseph Lieberman said that his politics were those of John F Kennedy a comparison that sent the state s liberals i

A potentially significant announcement yesterday by the Vatican an initiative known as the Courtyard of the Gentiles will launch in Paris on 24-25 March The idea came from Pope Benedict s address to the Curia over a year ago in December 2009 when he spoke of the first step of evangelization as

Ah youth nbsp A report from The Catholic Herald in the UK As a young priest Pope Benedict put his name to a document calling for the Church to seriously investigate the obligation to priestly celibacy Joseph Ratzinger was one of the signatories of a 1970 document calling for an examination o

Exactly fifty years ago John F Kennedy was inaugurated President of the United States and during the past week we have been reminded both of his inaugural address and also of the death of one of his last living close associates Sargent Shriver Let us also look back on Kennedy s commitment with p

A lovely video on the March for Life with beautiful faces and a beautiful message nbsp The Sister of Life is especially eloquent nbsp

By far the biggest applause during Tuesday s State of the Union speech was in response to a message from the president offering support to American troops serving around the world especially in Iraq and Afghanistan Every person present in the chamber rose to his or her feet and stood clapping

Over the last two years America s expanded Books amp Culture section has reviewed many of the season s critically lauded films including several of the nominees for Best Picture Here we provide links to these reviews by our team of critics nbsp See what our reviewers thought nbsp of this year

There are as many paths to God as there are individuals This series on Huffington Post looks at six of the most well-traveled paths for contemporary believers The first two parts considered nbsp The Path of Belief nbsp and nbsp The Path of Independence You might be surprised to hear of agnost