The place of gay and lesbian Catholics in the church and in society has once again come to the fore during the nbsp furor over the status of same-sex marriages and civil unions both here and abroad nbsp Just today for example Bishop Jaime Soto of Sacramento nbsp weighed in saying that Prop

Barack Obama rsquo s new national security team is a Best and Brightest group as befits an administration that is pledged to being super-competent and smart the implication being that George W Bush rsquo s foreign policy has been incompetent and ham-handed his ideology over-riding his sensibili

Many of the headlines reporting nbsp the pope s weekly nbsp addresses are unintentionally amusing often highly so nbsp But you can hardly nbsp blame headline writers for nbsp trying to sum up Angelus messages and sometimes encyclicals letters nbsp or other official statements in one succinc

Look down from Heaven and see Where is your zeal and your might O God Will you refuse your mercy to us You were always called Our Redeemer Why Lord do you let us wander from your ways And let our hearts grow too hard to fear you Return Lord to your servants O that you would tear the

What a difference four years make--or is it merely an ideological shift The National Intelligence Council has been doing every few years projections of global trends for 2010 2015 2020 and just recently November 2008 2025 Four years ago the NIC scenarios saw globalization as irreversible

Advent First Week Monday The days are coming says the Lord when I will fulfill the promise I have made In those days at that time I will raise up for David a just son he shall do what is right and just in the land In those days when God dwells among us and in each of us Our name will be

As President-elect Obama begins appointing officials to his administration the leftie blogosphere has been complaining that too many positions have gone to former Clinton officials which they interpret as a shift to the center And they object to it as such But the ideological origins of Obama r

Can the United States recommit itself to legal interrogation techniques?

Human rights came slowly to Latin America.

The first in a series for Advent

A special issue featuring articles by Maryann Cusimano Love, David Hollenbach and Barbara Crossette

The fifth general conference of the Latin American bishops Celam in 2007 was a significant event in the history of the church in the Western Hemisphere Its report Disciples and Missionaries of Jesus Christ That Our People May Have Life in Him may be among the most interesting missiological tex

Congolese Bishops Denounce International Silence on Genocide A group of Congolese bishops has denounced the international community’s tolerance of increasing violence in eastern Congo, which they called a “silent genocide” against the civilian population there. “We are callin

The U.S. doesn't always have to take the lead in brokering peace agreements

Will the new Human Rights Council take its mandate seriously?

Clever, You My Jesuit training from long ago leads me to love your magazine, although at times I do consider it, in matters financial, an addendum to Das Kapital. Imagine my surprise, nay, my amazement, then, to agree with your views on the current financial crisis (“Encourage Savings” a

No Common Ground? A Forgotten Battle

'I'm inspired by the astonishing optimism of other Americans.'

How the Catholic Church promotes human dignity

Toward a new framework for corporate responsibility