In the pilot episode of “Girls,” the much-discussed HBO series now in its second season, Hannah, the show’s main character, gets high, gets angsty and gets worried looks from her parents when she describes the importance of her partly-completed memoir. Groggy, she announces: &ldquo

nbsp By now you may have seen our recent editorial which calls for the repeal of the Second Amendment nbsp It seems the Huffington Post noticed it too Reporter Meredith Bennett-Smith spoke with our editor in chief Matt Malone S J about the magazine 39 s motivations and the editorial proces

One family's Christmas tradition

I recently returned from a trip to Ireland including a visit to Dublin and its surrounding towns I was lucky enough to have time for a stop at Mercy International Centre the first house of mercy established by Catherine McAuley foundress of the Sisters of Mercy The house is located on Baggot St

According to a U S C C B press release Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York president of the U S Conference of Catholic Bishops congratulated President Barack Obama Nov 7 the day after his re-election as President of the United States The U S C C B released the text of the letter this mornin

On this election night Mark Stricherz nbsp offers guest blog post below on why a Romney victory would be good for Catholics Stricherz is the Capitol Hill correspondent for The Colorado Observer a contributing reporter for The Daily and author of Why the Democrats Are Blue Secular Liberalism

A convert from Islam to Roman Catholicism Lamin Sanneh possesses an in-depth knowledge of two of the world rsquo s most talked-about religions In an age in which individuals and churches too-often reject interfaith dialogue in favor of hate speech protests or violence Sanneh rsquo s voice is a w

It is all to easy for me to view the world as something I’m fighting against rather than rooting for.

Mitt Romney named Paul Ryan as his running mate this month drawing even more attention to the man whose name even before the GOP nod was on the lips of Catholics around the country While Ryan rsquo s pro-life views and his stance against same-sex marriage have been praised by some Catholics bis