Our presidential selection process is a civic and moral train wreck.

How can we school our hearts in God's call to justice?

I ve read a couple different stories over the last few days that offer a glimpse into the polarization of the Catholic Church on certain issues in this case homosexuality and the place of gay people in the Church First was the news that The Pilot the newspaper of the Archdiocese of Boston ran an

Even carefully mounted arguments meet with name-calling.

From 2011, Margot Patterson on the outbreak of sectarian strife.

What is the proper role of theology?

A study released today by the Pew Research Center rsquo s Forum on Religion amp Public Life reports that more than 2 2 billion people nearly a third of the world rsquo s total population live in countries where either government restrictions on religion or ldquo social hostilities involving rel

A truly scary warning from Moody rsquo s Investor Services was issued yesterday but if the credit rating service hoped to end the brinkmanship over the U S debt ceiling it appears so far to have succeeded only in provoking deeper heel-digging in Congress Moody s said June 2 that ldquo if there

Even as the North and South Sudan sought to extricate themselves from the crisis in Abyei more evidence emerged today that violence will prove a plague on both sides of Sudan s border Citing confidential U N documents it has acquired the Associated Press is reporting that Southern Sudan soldiers