Can U.S. Christians help revive the sacred city?

Taking Risks As a woman religious and former member of a formation team, I read “Religious Life in the Age of Facebook,” by Richard G. Malloy, S.J. (7/7), with interest. I have had a number of experiences where hundreds of young adults of diverse backgrounds immersed themselves in a comm

Who Lost Russia? The Saddleback Dialogues

Web Seminar Focuses on Disabled Catholics The 30th anniversary of the U.S. bishops’ pastoral statement on people with disabilities offers an opportunity to acquaint a new generation of bishops and young people with the document’s message, according to speakers at an Aug. 13 “Webina

God's inexhaustible surprises

Elizabeth Ann Seton and the birth of the U.S. church

1891-1934 • Pope Leo XIII’s encyclical Rerum Novarum (1891) upheld workers’ rights, including the right to organize into associations of their choice. Leo endorsed increasing associations of workers or of workers and employers together and thereby assisted the worker-directed labor

Are the Democrats expanding their tent?

Michael Sean Winters' 'Left at the Altar,' reviewed

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