A round up of live tweets from (Un)Conventional Wisdom blogger Robert D. Sullivan during last night's State of the Union Address

Here are some of the ways in which President Obama has steered the United States by at least a few degrees.

More people have been forced to flee their homes than at any time in recorded history, writes Kevin White of Jesuit Refugee Service. But there is good news about global initiatives to address the problem.

As our own cultural moment in the United States has included some prominent conversions to Catholicism, what might we learn from some of the more prominent converts in British Catholic history?

Charles Morris chronicles the first 50 years of America.

Peace Gathering Marks 20 Years Since AssisiThemes of prayer, peace, justice, love, dialogue and care for the poor intermingled as representatives of world religions gathered in Washington, D.C., on April 26 for the 2006 International Prayer for Peace. It marked the 20th anniversary of the first such

The Boston Globe began publishing on Jan. 6, 2002, a series of reports regarding sexual abuse of children by priests in the Archdiocese of Boston. In a flash, newspapers around the country began reprinting the Globe’s reports and developing their own. They published 728 stories in January, 1,0

Pope Francis said that Christians can't be like Pontius Pilate and wash our hands of politics.

The Catholic Church, the largest private real estate owner in the world, faces decisions about what to do with its extensive real estate portfolio.

“I really would prefer not to do this,” the archbishop of San Fransisco told Gloria Purvis. “But I cannot in my conscience allow the situation to continue and cause this scandal.”