What I learned from secular seekers on the way to Compostela

Can we build a culture of service?

Rowan Williams on the faith of Dostoevsky

In Israel, the government is like a broken glass shattered into a bunch of little pieces."

Pope Benedict XVI met privately on Feb. 18 with Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the U.S. House of Representa-tives, and told her that all Catholics, especially those who are lawmakers, must work to protect human life at every stage. “His Holiness took the opportunity to speak of the requirements of t

The Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace in Zimbabwe will use its nationwide network to rally support for rebuilding Zimbabwe following the recent formation of a unity government. “The new administration will need to work hard to end the human suffering” in Zimbabwe, which faces ram

Rowan Williams considers Dostoevsky's Christianity

Darren Aronofsky's 'The Wrestler' provides a meditation on morality

Ash Wednesday in my stepmother rsquo s Alzheimer rsquo s complex saw twenty or so residents aged 80 to 105 sitting in the Solarium in blank silence Surely here we needed no ashes to ldquo Remember man that thou art dust and to dust thou shall return rdquo Every patient in this locked facility

The Supreme Court waded into the murky waters of the Establishment Clause yesterday and reached a surprising unanimous verdict In Utah a town park holds many monuments one of them to the Ten Commandments A fringe religious group called Summum that combines elements of pseudo-Christian Gnosticis