House Republicans passed a 2013 budget reconciliation package that included cuts in social services despite an appeal from the U.S. bishops.
With less than six months to go before the 2012 November elections, two results are sadly certain: first, the voting public will be the most ideologically divided ever; second, the 113th Congress (2013–14) will be the most partisan and polarized ever. Between 1972 and 2008, the percentage of R
It was “a very bitter truth” that “democratization of the Middle East does not bring relief to the people who live there.”
On May 10 Pope Benedict XVI formalized the status of the 12th-century German mystic St. Hildegard of Bingen, “inscribing her in the catalog of saints.”
The figure was below the number of 62 million reported in 2000, but the difference is due to a change in the way data was collected.
Speakers at a conference in Dublin called on the hierarchy to open structures of dialogue with lay Catholics about the future of the church.
“We cannot be silent in the face of words or actions that would undermine the institution of marriage," Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan said.