Below is a letter written by Catholic Cardinal Peter Turkson who is the President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace in Vatican City Thanks to Eli S McCarthy of Georgetown University for sending it to America The U S Bishops Conference has been meeting discussing and advocating for

Peace is one leg of the tripod of Pope Francis rsquo Franciscan agenda the Poor Creation and Peace Already he has made headway in turning the church toward the poor removing the ldquo Bishop of Bling rdquo inspiring others to move out of their palatial residences and instructing religious to

Everyone in my hometown knows him We always see him dancing on the street corners wearing flamboyant attire fighting with light posts pretending to be a tree We all know him but few know what he rsquo s like when not on his medication instead of his affable quirky self we see the darker sid

Jonathan Schell who died in Brooklyn on March 25 at the age of 70 was more than a great journalist he was what every journalist aspires mdash or should aspire mdash to be a moralist a prophet a soul of deep integrity I suppose I should use those adjectives with caution since I regret that we

A recent New York Times story on the birth of the universe produces awe and amazement ldquo It rsquo s not every day that you wake up and find what happened one trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second after the big bang rdquo quipped a prominent cosmologist Science 3 21 New di

As the nation continues its apparently endless debate on comprehensive immigration reform members of the U S Conference of Catholic Bishops joined together this morning with residents migrants and advocates at the border in Nogales Arizona There they celebrated Mass together to remember the tho