Bishop William E Lori the chairman of the U S bishops Ad Hoc Committeee on Religious Liberty has sent a response to America s editorial Policy Not Liberty The letter will also appear in an upcoming issue of the print edition The March 5th America editorial takes the United States Bishops t

The CACG voter guide has just been posted online A sample In our country a long series of social and political achievements give testimony to the thirst for justice and human dignity that are at the core of the Church rsquo s social teaching From the creation of Social Security and unemployment

Our Lenten recommendations this year focused on taking up certain practices But in some cases giving up something may still be a good spiritual discipline In our next issue link to come our editors recommend giving up election news And over at The Jesuit Post Michael Rossman S J has pr

From Mensaje magazine via Mirada Global Should we be worried about China Its rise as a relevant actor is undoubtedly the central phenomenon in 21st century international relations The deep political and economic changes currently in course show a radical transformation of the international order

On Feb 10 Mary Ann Glendon Robert P George and others signed an open letter titled Unacceptable rejecting President Obama s proposed accommodation on the HHS contraception mandate An updated version of the letter signed by Cardinal Timothy Dolan was released today and is available here as

Read Karen Sue Smith on Meryl Streep in the The Iron Lady and Michael V Tueth S J on Octavia Spencer and the cast of The Help Fr Tueth also reviewed Woody Allen s Midnight in Paris which won best original screenplay and I reviewed Alexander Payne s The Descendants which garnered the

Some new ideas on how to address the crisis in Syria from Eli S McCarthy professor of Justice and Peace Studies at Georgetown University Is increasing violence civil war and covert support for armed revolution the only options left in Syria Many analysts respond affirmatively However from a

On next week s podcast Fr Jim Martin and I discuss the hidden themes of suffering grace forgiveness and love in the popular series Downton Abbey And why the word Abbey is important Here s a sneak preview Podcast Powered By Podbean Tim Reidy

How do you teach a twelve year old to pray An intriguing proposal from our friends at The Jesuit Post Have you ever wanted to teach middle school I thought not It rsquo s no easy task to get sixth graders to sit still must less get knowledge in their heads You can imagine my astonishment whe

Just posted online For a brief moment Catholics on all sides were united in defense of the freedom of the Catholic Church to define for itself what it means to be Catholic in America They came together to defend the church rsquo s institutions from morally objectionable potentially crippling burd