Kevin Clarke

The State Department issued its annual report on religious freedom on July 30 Secretary of State Hillary Clinton offered a ldquo sobering rdquo global depiction of fundamental human right at risk ldquo More than a billion people live under governments that systematically suppress religious free

Msgr William J Lynn of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia was sentenced to 3 to 6 years in state prison today for child endangerment by a judge who said he turned a blind eye while monsters in clerical garb sexually abused children and devastated the church and community You knew full well what w

Fides the Vatican news agency has a report from inside Damscus from the Maronite Archbishop Samir Nassar The news is distressing to say the least One lives an apocalypse in Damascus and we hope with all our heart mind and strength that resurrection may soon arrive is the message sent to Fi

A recent exchange of warm regards between John Gehring at Faith in Public Life and the U S C C B rsquo s media office raised some eyebrows Gehring had penned a June background memo for media aimed at countering some of the inevitably anti-Obama subtext of the U S C C B rsquo sFortnight for Freedo

Decision just announced Mandate constitutional ACA survives intact nbsp Biggest surprise may be that Chief Justice Roberts voted for the majority saving Obamacare From Scotusblog reading decision Our precedent demonstrates that Congress had the power to impose the exaction in Section 5000A

The refugee crisis emerging in Syria as that nation disintegrates into outright civil war highlights the plight of refugees worldwide according to officials with the U S Conference of Catholic Bishops rsquo Office of Migration and Refugee Services Not only is that worsening conflict producing it

Despite efforts by Beijing to pass quietly through the June anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre the state of human rights in China became a scorching subject on the internet as photos of an exhausted woman and her aborted baby went viral as did suspicions about the recent alleged suic