If you live on the East Coast or even if you don t you re probably aware that Hurricane Irene is expected to travel up the I-95 corridor this weekend New York City already has announced that its public transportation will shut down beginning at noon on Saturday This combination of dangerous wea

CNS offers some interesting results from a new poll WASHINGTON CNS -- American Muslims are more optimistic about their future than people of other religions are about their own though Muslims say they regularly contend with suspicion and lack of respect for their faith A decade after the Sept

Jack McKeon is an inspiration not only because he s 80 years old and managing the Florida Marlins but because he s not afraid to show his deep Catholic faith The New York Times wrote a lovely and refreshing piece about him which included stories of McKeon assisting his colleagues in their own fa

As most readers here know the belief held by some churches that the pope is the Anti-Christ is not new And as my colleague Tim O Brien S J noted today it s not going away anytime soon While the president of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod better known as Michelle Bachman s church

Employers often request a wide range of skills from job applicants But in the midst of a troubled economy in which more than 14 million people are unemployed many companies are adding one extra qualification to that list having a job nbsp At a time when there are far more applicants than there

Over at the National Catholic Reporter John Allen has published a lengthy and comprehensive interview with the newly appointed Archbishop of Philadelphia Charles Chaput O F M Cap The two men had a very candid conversation and according to Allen the archbishop put no limits on the topics to be

A new CARA study reveals that the total weekly offerings at parishes have risen 14 percent over the past 5 years This seems at first like a good thing But additional statistics from the report titled The Changing Face of U S Catholic Parishes reveal a more complicated picture of the state of th

As James Keane S J pointed out in a recent issue of our magazine this year marks the 100th anniversary of Maryknoll And given the order s long history of service to the church and to countries around the world it certainly has reason to celebrate Dozens of events have been planned and the la

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