Ken Hackett has a distinguished record in the humanitarian field having worked for 40 years with Catholic Relief Services.

Bishop Cantu, who serves as chairman of the U.S. bishops' Committee on International Justice and Peace, said that as a U.S. citizen, he arrived in Hiroshima with a sense of "sorrow and repentance."

Whom can we trust to give us the daily dose of sanity we require in our polarized nation?

Pope Francis acknowledged that he has not given sufficient attention to the middle class when he speaks about the world rsquo s economy but instead has focused much on the polarization between the rich and the poor and the throw-away culture He said he has ldquo erred rdquo in not thinking more

An interview with Chicago's new archbishop

Lisa Sharon Harper, director of organizing for the Sojourners community in Washington, defined "America's original sin" as "racial hierarchy" at a June 15 conference on solidarity and faith issues in the nation's capital.Two days later, that sin reappeared in a shocking a

This year marks the centennial of D. W. Griffith’s masterpiece, “The Birth of a Nation.” Who cares? Or who should? After all, it’s really only an embarrassing antique. Film historians have long extolled its artistic innovation as the foundation of the modern motion picture. S

Catholics of different political stripes do agree on important things.

One of the more demanding and absorbing conversations I have been part of was a recent discussion of polarization in the American Catholic Church.

The Vatican rsquo s ldquo mandate rdquo in which it oversaw the running of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious has ended mdash two years earlier than anticipated nbsp In a joint statement today from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and the LCWR both parties said that th