On Feb. 11, 2013, Pope Benedict XVI announced a decision that will have far-reaching implications for the modern church.

nbsp This morning 39 s news that Pope Benedict XVI resigned came as a surprise but it did not shock me For Benedict has shown devotion to Celestine V the sainted pope who resigned was then murdered and defamed by Dante because his abdication mdash in the Inferno Dante called it quot the Gre

The burqa makes the woman a wraith in our midst, depriving her of recognizable humanity.

Our contemporary Cassandras have been proven right in Gaza It is impossible to leave the pot of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on the stove unattended for very long without it boiling over The Hamas rocket attacks on Tel Aviv and Jerusalem the Israeli bombardment of Gaza and an impending g

Last Tuesday Oct 30 the Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone announced that Pope Benedict XIV is sending a delegation of high-ranking churchmen on a mission of solidarity to Syria The seven-man delegation is exceptional not only for its size but for the experience of its member

When I finish my last full day at America on Sept. 28, it will be 10 years to the day that I arrived here.

The servant church after Vatican II

September 11th raised new questions about what constitutes a just war.

Catholic reflections on the 2012 elections

The annual gathering of world leaders for the United National General Assembly is occasion for a variety of side meeting for world leaders the largest and most famous of which is the Clinton Global Initiative Yesterday the Egyptian Mission to the United Nations hosted an open forum for American