Cardinal Dolan is getting heat He is grand marshal of the 2015 St Patrick rsquo s Day parade in New York and says he has no problem with the decision of the parade committee to allow gays and lesbians to march as a group in the oldest parade honoring St Patrick in America This is not a religious

Debut report from new U.S. Church correspondent, Sister Mary Ann Walsh.

Father Ronald Rolheiser O M I nbsp is an Oblate priest theologian and popular spirituality writer He is president of the Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio Texas He received his doctorate in systematic theology at the University of Louvain and is a member of the Catholic Theological Soc

Pope Francis will travel to Korea from Aug 13 to 18 He is going there for a meeting with young people from 30 Asian countries at the Sixth Asian Youth Day and to beatify 124 Korean martyrs from the first 50 years of the Catholic Church rsquo s existence in this East-Asian nation that was evangel

We are the people Massimo Faggioli warned you about In his article seeking an end to the political polarization of Catholics in the United States Faggioli mentions us by name as representing the road not to follow We are accused of ldquo withdrawal nbsp from the nation-state rdquo ldquo withd

Considerable debate is taking place throughout the Catholic world over whether and how church practices teachings and organizational infrastructure should change in response to new social norms and needs As reported recently in The National Catholic Reporter the Vatican has asked bishops across t

It is very difficult for European Catholics to make sense of the polarization within the Catholic Church in the United States. I grew up in Northern Italy and studied and worked for almost 20 years at the University of Bologna, my alma mater and the oldest university in Europe, founded in 1088. In t

Leaders responding to the pope’s indictment of an “economy of exclusion and inequality.”

RealClearPolitics rsquo Sean Trende assesses this fall rsquo s U S Senate races and concludes that the GOP is being underestimated Based on 2010 and 2012 election data Trende writes ldquo Senate races begin to converge on presidential approval doubtless a function of the much-remarked-upon po

Like two alley cats backing away from each other the Democratic and Republican parties in most states have become more polarized over the past two decades making it harder to pass legislation with the support of both liberals and conservatives And California mdash which has adopted such electio