Rimini Italy The annual seaside festival in this northern Italian town organised by the Communion and Liberation CL movement since 1980 is an extraordinary phenomenon ldquo Il meeting rdquo as it is known ndash full name Meeting for Friendship among Peoples -- nbsp last year attracted

W Malcolm Byrnes report on the prolife promise of induced pluripotent stem cells is a lucid presentation of a complex scientific and moral question To hear more from Professor Byrnes check out this week s podcast Our In These Pages selection this week looks at the thorny problem of immigration r

The United States and the drug war in Mexico

Recent Catholic convert and likely Republican presidential contender Newt Gingrich is profiled in the latest issue of Esquire magazine with his second of three wife giving her first interview since the couple rsquo s very public and very dramatic divorce It rsquo s the kind of salaciously sensat

Zero Programs Re “Justice for Juniors” (Editorial, 7/15): Here in Maryland we have an incompetent Department of Juvenile Justice “functioning” in an outmoded statutory framework. It provides some services at the lower end of the seriousness scale. For youth who approach age 1

Arizona s Catholic bishops released the following statement yesterday afternoon on a federal court decision which blocks some elements of Arizona s controversial immigration law more on this We the Roman Catholic Bishops in Arizona commend Judge Susan Bolton for enjoining some of the more probl

The two most contentious aspects of the controversial Arizona law SB 1070 sections that called for Az police officers to check a person s immigration status while enforcing other laws and that required immigrants to carry their residency documents at all times nbsp have been blocked by a federal

Taking stock of the new evangelical internationalism