Kevin Clarke

Some anniversaries worth noting this week begin of course with Tiananmen Square It s odd to think that these days all Beijing and Washington appear willing to argue about is air pollution but there was a time when we had wider ethical chasms to cross Free trade makes strange bedfellows of us al

Bishop Blaire has issued a clarification of some misunderstandings based on his remarks to me on Tuesday full text of the statement follows below I ve asked his press secretary if he wishes to speak specifically to comments or points made in the interview published here and will update if I hea

In a recent e-mail Notre Dame Law Professor and Mirror of Justice blogger Rick Garnett made some points about the university rsquo s recent lawsuit against the H H S mandate In a post yesterday I referred to Grant Gallicho rsquo s analysis at DotCommonweal about the scope of the religious exempti

The Archdiocese of Washington today joined a rush of Catholic lawsuits around the country this week challenging the Department of Health and Human Services mandate on the inclusion of contraception in health care plans beginning August 2013 In California however Bishop Stephen E Blaire of the Di

Notre Dame has now joined a number of other Catholic institutions in filing suit against a new mandate from the Department of Health and Human Services that may require the inclusion of contraceptive services in health plans beginning in August 2013 at religious institutions such as Notre Dame and o

If you rsquo re a parent of a child on the autism spectrum surely a chronic worry must be your child rsquo s future beginning with that will happen to your child once whatever supports you have been able to cobble together from your local school system time out in the late teens Even young people

Over at the National Catholic Reporter John Allen offers an inside baseball look at exactly what the heck is going on at the Vatican regarding the L C W R clampdown or is it Allen offers a somewhat calming dissection of the behind the scenes jockeying that took place is probably still taking pl

Aaron Blake at the Washington Post spots a phenom hiding in plain site While reporters spent the GOP primary season tracking the ups and downs of the average Republican evangelical s psychologcial digestion of Mitt Romney s Mormonism in the background the Catholics were coming the Catholics were

The Leadership Conference of Women Religious issued a short response to yesterday s nbsp CDF Doctrinal Assessment The presidency of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious was stunned by the conclusions of the doctrinal assessment of LCWR by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith Beca

The U S Bishops had a busy day In addition to the announcement regarding the CDF s plan for the reform of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious and encouraging the United States to end the embargo and normalize relations with Cuba the bishops endured a return scolding from House Speaker Jo