Mohamed Bomassa was saved today by his baseball cap ldquo Pour la Paix rdquo it reads he holds it up for a photo ldquo This protected me rdquo he says explaining that for a Muslim youth crossing Bangui the capital city of the Central African Republic can be a fatal experience these days
In All Things
U.S. Senate Fails to Pass Minimum Wage Increase
On Wednesday April 30 the United States Senate voted against legislation that would officially increase the federal minimum wage from 7 25 an hour at which it has remained since 2009 without adjusting for continued inflation to President Obama rsquo s proposed 10 10 which would take effect by
In Bangui, Fearing Your Neighbor
In Bangui before the violence between the city rsquo s Muslim and Christian communities reached a crescendo in recent weeks life was hardly easy in the first place Unemployment and poverty are sky high in this capital of the Central African Republic a land-locked nation with a modest tourism trad
A Response to ‘Noble Vocations’
Joseph J Dunn quot Noble Vocations A Defense of Business Education in Catholic Schools rdquo tempts a response I was one of those Catholics who expressed anxiety about the much-discussed Koch Brothers gift to Catholic University of America When Mr Dunn and the leaders of Catholic University
Readings: What is A Saint and How Do We Talk with Them?
Literary editor Raymond A. Schroth, S.J., asks: Is it time to place a temporary moratorium on “making” saints?
Workers’ Memorial Day 2014
Today our nation and workers around the world mark Workers’ Memorial Day, pausing to remember those who have died on the job.
Members of U.S. delegation talk about Sts. John XXIII, John Paul II
Members of the official U S government delegation to the canonizations of Sts John XXIII and John Paul II spoke of the honor and their good fortune in being chosen by President Barack Obama to attend the April 27 event quot I 39 m tickled to be here quot said Rep Xavier Becerra D-Calif cha
The Papacy, an Inside Track to Sainthood?
When Pope Francis canonizes Popes John XXIII and John Paul II on Sunday April 27 Catholics across the spectrum will have reason to cheer Liberals credit John with opening the church to the modern world in the 1960s and conservatives hail John Paul as reasserting orthodoxy after too many innovati
John XXIII and John Paul II: Two Catholic Saints for the Jews
It is a poignant coincidence that Popes John XXIII and John Paul II will be canonized as Catholic saints on the eve of Yom Hashoah the international day of Holocaust remembrance observed in Israel and by Jews around the world These two popes rsquo personal narratives are inseparable from the Holoc
Saintly Stats
Popes John XXIII and John Paul II will be declared saints on Sunday April 27 the first-ever double papal canonization Here 39 s a quick guide to making saints in the Roman Catholic Church nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp There are currently about 10 000 saints on the church 39 s official roster The
