At Georgetown, four panelists analyzed the first months of Francis' papacy.

The polarization of American politics continues to be a fertile topic for researchers with one new study suggesting that our online dating habits contribute to the red-vs -blue schism At the Mischiefs of Faction blog study co-author Casey Klofstad summarizes the findings parents pass their

Responding to yesterday’s unprecedented violence in Cairo, President Obama this morning cancelled a biannual joint U.S.-Egyptian military exercise that had been scheduled for September. “While we want to sustain our relationship with Egypt, our traditional cooperation cannot continue as

Washington could use a little of Pope Francis' faith, hope and charity.

Catholics need to put aside "any partisan differences" they have on the immigration issue and come together to pray for the welfare of their brother and sister immigrants and for Congress to pass much-hoped-for comprehensive immigration reform, said Bishop David M. O'Connell of Trenton

Going into the 4th of July weekend I look at the political turmoil taking place in Egypt and feel fortunate to have been born in a country that had its revolution 200 plus years ago and was led by men of such singular ability George Washington Benjamin Franklin John Adams Thomas Jefferson Jame

Death Pulls Ahead; A Bumpy Road to Obamacare; Faith in the System

When I was a Maryknoll seminarian in the 1950s we all had to read a biography of Blessed now Saint Theophane Venard a priest of the Soci t des Missions trang res de Paris MEP who was martyred in Tonkin now a part of present-day Vietnam in 1861 Published as Modern Martyr the story had

With elections in Venezuela scheduled for next week Mark Ungar of Brooklyn College offers an analysis of the issues at stake Since bursting on the scene with a failed coup in 1992 Hugo Ch vez has dominated and altered political and social life in Venezuela With his death in March the country n

Miguel Diaz, the former Vatican ambassador, writes on the Holy See in a globalized world.