Vice President-elect Joe Biden liked to say that his Catholicism created an entire culture that shaped his views on public policy as well as private and personal obligations Biden is just old enough to remember the Catholic ghetto in which whole neighborhoods were called by the name of the local Ca

The British media is today reporting -- favorably here less so here -- that the leader of the Catholic Church in England and Wales is backing a call by London s mayor for a pathway into citizenship for Britain s 600 000-odd long-term undocumented migrants In reality it should be the other way

Ambassador to the Holy See is not like most ambassadorships For starters the First Amendment notwithstanding it is the only position in the U S government that involves formal recognition of religion Ambassadors are not accredited to the Vatican City-State the 103 acres on the west bank of the

AP reports that according to nbsp Cardinal Francis Arinze prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship Pope Benedict XVI is considering moving the sign of Peace from immediately before Communion to earlier in the Mass nbsp The brief story is here nbsp Arinze told the Vatican newspaper

Cambridge MA I have been making entries for In All Things for almost a year now and by my count this is the 25th such contribution I have recently written of dreams or nightmares about elections and accountability in the Church interreligious violence and love I have also tr

The Superior General of the Society of Jesus Adolfo Nicolas S J nbsp in nbsp an interview nbsp with El Periodico a Spanish newspaper said that liberation theology which has been under scrutiny in the Vatican in the last several decades is a courageous and creative response to an unbearable