Today is a great day to be alive This morning rsquo s newspaper greeted me with the news that Radovan Karadzic the leader of the Bosnian Serbs who incited the war in Bosnia in the early 1990s has been arrested and will be brought to the Hague to face trial for war crimes Justice has moved slowly

Is the Pew Report right about the exodus of Catholics from the church?

The transformative potential of Catholic fundraising

Torture and Accountability On June 23 the U.S. bishops’ Office of International Justice and Peace, in conjunction with the National Religious Campaign Against Torture, issued a 37-page study guide, Torture Is a Moral Issue, to help the faithful better understand Catholic teaching on torture (a

Focolare Members Elect New President Maria Voce, a longtime close collaborator of the late Chiara Lubich, founder of the Focolare movement, has been elected the new president of the movement to foster worldwide unity. Almost 500 delegates from five continents voted nearly unanimously for Voce July 7

Cardinal Bertone on 'The Last Secret of Fatima'

Already published to widespread critical acclaim this book tells in a fresh way the story of Catholicism in the U S from colonial times to the present mdash but from the perspective of the faithful themselves James M O rsquo Toole professor of history at Boston College in his introduction to

My old boss the Archbishop of Westminster will not unusually be leading the annual diocesan pilgrimage to Lourdes which begins Sunday This in spite of it being the 150th anniversary of the apparitions and Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O rsquo Connor rsquo s last Lourdes pilgrimage as Archbishop of We

The Times of London is reporting that in preparation for the not-too-far-off canonization of Venerable John Henry Newman his remains are to be ldquo disinterred rdquo and placed on view in order that the faithful may venerate them or more precisely him nbsp ldquo The Vatican has ordered t

There is a story in the Independent newspaper -- not normally one to run a religious ldquo exclusive rdquo -- that the Catholic Church rsquo s policy faced with the Anglican meltdown is to do what it can to help Dr Rowan Williams to hold it together nbsp ldquo Pope rides to Rowan s rescue rdq