David Gibson - Religion News Service

Sir Thomas More loses his head in this Sunday rsquo s episode April 26 of the acclaimed PBS historical drama ldquo Wolf Hall rdquo which is not much of a spoiler since that rsquo s what infamously happened to More in 1535 at the hands of King Henry VIII The real suspense now is whether More wi

Aims to ‘elevate the debate on the moral dimensions of protecting the environment’

Can the Roman Catholic Church change And if so how And what rsquo s on the table mdash traditions rites doctrine none of the above Such nbsp fundamental questions go to the heart of Catholic identity and they rsquo re the same questions Pope Francis has raised almost since the moment he was e

One reason the cardinals gathered in the Sistine Chapel elected Jorge Mario Bergoglio as Pope Francis two years ago on March 13 was a brief but powerful speech the Argentine cardinal made shortly before the conclave in which he denounced the ldquo theological narcissism rdquo of the Roman Catholic

Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York said Islamic State militants terrorizing the Middle East are a distortion of ldquo genuine rdquo Islam much as the Irish Republican Army was a ldquo perversion rdquo of Catholicism Dolan rsquo s comments to CNN on March 3 reflect similar statements about the Is

Pope Francis on Feb 9 began what could be a key week for his reformist papacy starting with meetings with his hand-picked kitchen cabinet of nine senior cardinals who are developing plans to overhaul the Roman Curia the papal civil service that has been plagued with crisis and dysfunction The th

Billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch recently made headlines by pledging nearly 900 million to help elect candidates who support their libertarian strain of economic conservatism but the industrialists are also nearly doubling their investment in the business school of Catholic University o