Still a Catholic Charity; The Faith of the Vice President Elect

Congolese Bishops Denounce International Silence on Genocide A group of Congolese bishops has denounced the international community’s tolerance of increasing violence in eastern Congo, which they called a “silent genocide” against the civilian population there. “We are callin

Can the United States recommit itself to legal interrogation techniques?

Vice President-elect Joe Biden liked to say that his Catholicism created an entire culture that shaped his views on public policy as well as private and personal obligations Biden is just old enough to remember the Catholic ghetto in which whole neighborhoods were called by the name of the local Ca

Mary Ann Glendon talks about the art of diplomacy

Church Officials Charge: Conspiracy Behind Violence Church officials and others say there is a “clear conspiracy behind the sudden upsurge in the atrocities committed against Christian targets in different parts of India.” “We are really distressed to see that atrocities on Christi

The art of teaching, especially for the rookie, is counterintuitive.

The campaign took a sudden turn back to reality yesterday For weeks we were treated to discussions of who was and was not a celebrity lipstick on pigs bridges to nowhere and the such Yesterday with the Lehman Brothers rsquo bankruptcy bargain basement sale of Merrill Lynch and the collapse

Houma-Thibodaux Diocese Severely Hit by Storm Archbishop Alfred C. Hughes of New Orleans reported on Sept. 2 that of Louisiana’s seven Catholic dioceses, the Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux was battered the hardest by Hurricane Gustav. Hughes, who rode out the storm at the St. Louis Cathedral recto

A surprising new foreign policy from the Bush administration