An Easter reflection on Fontana's 'Noli Me Tangere'

The bishop cited a principle often credited to St. Augustine: "In essential things unity, in doubtful things liberty, but in all things love.

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"There will be nothing expected of you but your presence and your willingness to pray with me," said Pittsburgh Bishop David A. Zubik.

First of all, I want to say, as speakers on great occasions always say, how honored I am to be here. For me it is very true. I have great and personal reasons for saying this. I first discovered America as Columbus was wont to say, back in the 1950's when a newly named editor invited me to come for

Airing Tuesday night on PBS: The Released, the grim story of life after prison in Ohio.

The diocese recently announced a new initiative to encourage area Catholics to conserve water and energy.

An estimated 150,000 ethnic Tamils are still trapped in a small patch of Tamil-controlled area in the northeast of the island country.

Thousands of Haitians in the U.S. face deportation. They deserve better.

"This is a step in the right direction," said Father Jose Espino, a priest of the Miami Archdiocese and a Cuban native.

An appreciation of Wendell Berry

Tom McCluskey, vice president of FRC Action, the legislative arm of the Washington-based Family Research Council, said the effort to ratify amendments to the U.S. Constitution may provide a better analogy for state-by-state campaigns to restrict abortion than efforts to abolish the death penalty. Bu

Examining 'The Green Bible'

A new report says that after growing rapidly between 1990 and 2006, the population of undocumented immigrants has stabilized.

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.