Mary Ann Glendon (left), former U.S. ambassador to the Vatican, will receive the University of Notre Dame's Laetare Medal on May 17.

What can the letters of Graham Greene tell us about the man?

In the days when Christ Jesus was in the flesh he offered prayers and supplications with loud cries and tears to the one who was able to save him from death and he was heard because of his reverence Son though he was he learned obedience from what he suffered and when he was made perfect he bec

Father Jim Martin has kindly shared his homily for this Sunday with the readers of The Good Word Enjoy Unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies it remains just a grain of wheat but if it dies it produces much fruit nbsp John 12 20-33 Now what does that mean exactly nbsp W

Later today Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner will announce new regulations for the financial services sector The regulations are important in themselves but also because they represent the third nail in the coffin of Reaganomics Whatever else you may think about President Barack Obama and the

The British online journal Thinking Faith has published a provocative article by the Jesuit Michael Czerny defending the pope s criticism of condom use in the fight against AIDS Here are the key paragraphs On the second issue of a strategy for whole populations there is widespread belief that c

Progress and Challenges as Africa Prepares for Synod Africans preparing for the Special Assembly of the Synod of Bishops for Africa, to be held in October 2009, are emphasizing the need to find concrete ways to address the problems of a continent that has made much progress since the bishops’

'New Orleans' inimitable civic spirit has been revived.'

in India in the 21st century there are few true Gandhians left.