Yesterday members of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious met in Rome with Cardinal William Levada and members of the Vatican s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith which is investigating the LCWR for doctrinal issues as detailed in my earlier post nbsp nbsp Today the LCWR ha

Last Friday the National Institutes of Health issued new regulations governing embryonic stem cell research They are better than many expected and the anticipated outcry from Catholic circles has not materialized In fact most of the criticism of the guidelines is coming from the research communi

While we in New York were celebrating the installation of Archbishop Dolan and preparing for our Centennial Mass nbsp this news dropped nbsp Rumors had been around for the past few weeks among the secular media nbsp It s the news of the Vatican s investigation of the Leadership Conference of

I am usually in agreement with Father Thomas Reese S J at least about issues that relate to the intersection of politics and religion But his article over at the Post rsquo s On Faith about the next ambassador to the Vatican is wrong-headed Reese rightly insists that an ambassador represents

While today we celebrate our own planetary home with Earth Day the Philadelphia Inquirer s Faye Flam nbsp reports from a nbsp meeting in England that scientists have discovered the most Earth-like world yet orbiting a star 21 light-years away nbsp Previous discoveries or inferences since de

Sometimes in politics something that is said by a politician is so outrageous that it is the late night comics not the newsmen who capture the essence of the absurdity So it is with the remarks of former Vice-President of the United States Dick Cheney regarding the release of Justice Department

The announcement that Bishop Robert Carlson is headed to St Louis which has been vacant almost a year is welcome news indeed Like the previous incumbent Archbishop Raymond Burke Carlson is not likely to be mistaken for a liberal anytime soon But more importantly he brings a compelling perso

Youth violence surfaces in our public consciousness this week as we mark the 10th anniversary of Columbine As we inevitably debate the conditions and causes for youth violence we would do well to pay attention to a pervasive and life-threatening condition that affects a growing number of American

In many of the post-Easter readings speakers today Peter Jesus reach back into the tradition in which they are rooted in order to make sense of the fresh events nbsp Our way of saying that is that they re-view Old Testament tradition while gripped by what they have just experienced at Easter

Watching President Barack Obama at the Summit of the Americas confirmed that this man rsquo s personal story has intertwined with the nation rsquo s complicated and usually tragic racial history in such a way that others can rsquo t tear their eyes away from him President Obama walks into a room an

How can the artist's simple portraits and still lifes possibly affect us as deeply as they do?

We are simply beyond capacity at this point, said a Catholic Charities worker in St. Louis, Mo.

A Jesuit mission in Micronesia

It implements a novel understanding of marriage, which will grievously harm families and children, the bishops said.

'Mere survival is not the vocation of Christians.'

After the Supreme Court in 1976 allowed states to reinstate the death penalty, 37 states had laws on the books permitting capital punishment.

America engages a new world: Charles Morris on the magazine from 1959-2009

What would happen in a Roe v. Wade reversal is far from certain, Balch added. "Theres a lot of scholarly writing in the event of what would happen," she said, like how to enforce a law outlawing abortion that is still on the books but that has been dormant for close to four decades. "Even if there a