Where have all the young people gone?

The Bible still does not figure at the center of Catholic life the way the Eucharist does.

Washington Funeral Mass for Tim Russert The presumptive Democratic and Republican presidential nominees were among the scores of mourners at the private funeral Mass on June 18 for the NBC News Washington bureau chief and “Meet the Press” moderator Tim Russert, who died suddenly June 13

The Pauline Year a celebration of the life of Saint Paul believed to have been born 2 000 years ago began on the Feast of Sts Peter and Paul June 29 Here is Pope Benedict s reflection on Paul for that feast day in which he reminds us that the question for Christians to ask is not si

Barack Obama s campaign was trying hard to address to challenges to his candidacy this week Amidst charges that he is less than patriotic Obama gave a major speech in Independence Missouri yesterday And to shore up his credentials on foreign policy the campaign announced that Obama will be m

Sen Barack Obama went up on television with his first nationwide ad buy this past weekend His choice of markets for airing the ad was instructive including the usual swing states but also including several states where Democrats have not been competitive in years North Carolina Virginia Georgi

Political excommunication and partisan priests

Few Iraqi Refugees Resettled in U.S. More than 1,000 refugees from Iraq arrived in the United States in May, the most in recent months, bringing the fiscal-year total to 4,742 so far, the State Department reported June 3. But with just four months left in the fiscal year, the administration’s

'The preacher is a problem for himself.'

The issue of religious liberty is of the highest interest to me both as a theologian and as an American. It is, as it were, the American issue at the Council. The American episcopate is greatly pleased that the issue has finally appeared on the agenda of the Council, notwithstanding many efforts to