Despite receiving what he termed “hate mail” that questioned his appointment to the President’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, the Rev. Larry Snyder, president of Catholic Charities USA, said he welcomed the opportunity to bring the church’s vi

Mauricio Garcia on Colombia's violent history

Two shows now playing in New York have Christian faith and institutional authority as central themes.

Jay Dolan's 'The Irish Americans,' reviewed

The Catholic Medical Association has joined forces with the Christian Medical Association and the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists to combat what they see as a major threat to the conscience rights of health care professionals. The groups are joining in an effort to i

A potent symbol of the journey from Lent to Easter

Archbishop Paulinus Costa, president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Bangladesh, criticized the “barbarous killing and looting” that left more than 140 people dead or missing following the recent mutiny of the Bangladesh military. • Poland’s chief rabbi, Michael S

The fourth in a series for Lent

Ron Howards Frost/Nixon

It s not what you re thinking The reason an IUD was inserted into my uterus earlier today is medical It is one more attempt in a two-year succession of attempts to tame my monstrous perimenopausal menstrual cycle that has plunged me into insecurity and anemia And I m not sure which is wor

No email nbsp No surfing the web nbsp No Facebook nbsp No Twitter For forty days That s the recommendation of some Italian bishops nbsp nbsp See what a Jesuit priest on NPR has to say about all that James Martin SJ

Good question nbsp Bustedhalo has the answer in a multimedia presentation nbsp Oh and the Muzak was supposed to be a backdrop for someone who was waiting as one does in Purgatory James Martin SJ

Oftentimes we see what we want to see not necessarily what is actually in front of us on the page or in the world We take intellectual shortcuts Oh if he thinks lsquo X rsquo then he must also think lsquo Y rsquo even though there is no such connection in a given argument Sometimes these

The rush is on to conclude a global compact on climate change before the signing session due to take place in Copenhagen in December nbsp European political leaders scientists and legal experts have descended on Washington in recent weeks to educate the administration and the Congress on the impo

One hears loose talk these days about a lack of ldquo investor confidence rdquo in the Obama administration rsquo s ideas about resuscitating ldquo zombie banks rdquo those super-conglomerates whose liabilities exceed their assets nbsp For ldquo investor confidence rdquo read willing banker

All of the interesting Catholic stories have kept me from opining about Charles Freeman the man who had been selected to chair the National Intelligence Council by President Obama rsquo s incoming Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair Yesterday afternoon I saw that he had resigned and

Anna Manahan a renowned Irish actress died last week in her Waterford home at the age of 84 I never saw her on the stage but twenty five years ago I had a brief and memorable encounter with her at a brunch party given in her honor Our noisy crowd was draped all over the room and sitting on the fl