From the USCCB website Bishop Bishop Gerald F Kicanas of Tucson Arizona Vice-president of the U S Conference of Catholic Bishops testified before Congress on the ethical imperative for reform of the U S immigration system He spoke before the House Subcommittee on Immigration Citizenship Re

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Leo J O Donovan SJ president emeritus of Georgetown University is always on the lookout for art exhibitions that readers might find of interest nbsp Recently he visited a new show at New York s Metropolitan Museum of Art which has been receiving raves for its creative curation The World of

Even if you re a believer you may think that the saints have nothing to do with your own life You ve no doubt read some of those gory stories of men and women having their eyes plucked out or tongues cut out or bodies devoured by lions in the Coliseum not to mention stories of their being behea

Believe it or not I m a member of a theater company the Labyrinth Theater Company who I first got to know when they asked me to help them with a play called The Last Days of Judas Iscariot written by Stephen Adly Guirgis and produced at nbsp New York s nbsp Public Theater in 2004 nbsp In an

Oct. 31 is the feast of a remarkable Catholic brother, St. Alphonsus Rodríguez, the humble Jesuit porter of Majorca.

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The trailer for the new French movie Des Hommes et Des Dieux which dazzled the crowds at Cannes this year about the nbsp Cistercian monks of Tibhirine in Algeria who selflessly chose to remain in their monastery during a time of impending danger and who were later martyred by Muslim extremis

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