Kevin Clarke

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

On the same day that the U S C C B and the C D F brought the hammer down on U S women religious because of their controversial taste in conference speakers radical feminism and alleged lack of sufficient enthusiasm for the church s teaching on abortion women s ordination and homosexuality on

Surveying recent comments responding to a recent blog post I find myself wondering if there is some logical disconnect between the reality of daily blogging and the expectations of our site visitors Blogs as far as I understand the form and I assure you it is not one I am altogether comfortable

Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan was back in the news today promoting his budget proposals and his take on Catholic social teaching in an interview with CBN Critics including the U S C C B have assailed Ryan rsquo s budget as too hard on the poor but he apparently doesn rsquo t see a contradict

Pope Benedict returned to Rome this morning after a private meeting last night with an aging mellowing Fidel Castro Oh to have been a fly on that wall He had some parting shots on the Havana tarmac for both Cuban socialismo and the U S economic embargo of its one time surrogate The light o

However uncomfortable has been their association of late the U S C C B and the Department of Health and Human Services have been partners in millions of dollars in federally funded social services and over the past year or so on one court docket Now a U S District Court decision in Massachusett