The route of the elevated 7 train which travels between Queens and Manhattan passes by 5 Pointz a now-empty artist space The owners of the building encourage graffiti artists to paint the walls resulting in a colorful array of designs and images as you can see here It s one of my favorite sp

YouCat The book rsquo s title sounds a bit like a trendy blog or a cartoon character but its message is a serious one ldquo It will not make life easy for you rdquo Pope Benedict XVI writes in the foreword ldquo because it demands of you a new life rdquo Short for ldquo Youth Catechism of

As a big fan of The West Wing I always looked forward to any scenes in which President Bartlett s Catholicism came into focus Bartlett played of course by Martin Sheen was a generally likeable intelligent character who often grappled with moral implications of his faith In this recent inter

Under the category of Interesting Use of a Guinness World Record Attempt as a Method of Evangelization and Protest approximately 24 000 students and teachers gathered on March 9 at the University of Santo Tomas in Manila to form the world s largest human cross Check out a slideshow containing mor

I recently wrote about my encounter with an Iraqi Christian refugee family in Lebanon during a press trip with the Catholic Near East Welfare Association in Nov 2010 During that trip I also spoke briefly with Issam Bishara the Vice President for the Pontifical Mission for the Middle East about t

From NPR The Sisters of St Francis of Philadelphia say McDonald s has some explaining to do They want the company to report to the world on what it s doing to address the public s concerns about the health effects of fast food They are especially interested in how the fare affects kids The n

Lessons from a trip to Lebanon

At Poynter org Martin Baron editor of the Boston Globe talks about the journalistic process behind breaking the story of sexual abuse by priests He says he lit the match starting the investigation on his first day on the job nearly ten years ago Baron was determined to avoid ldquo he said s

By now you rsquo ve probably heard about the video in which an unseen man and woman ask a clinic manager at a New Jersey Planned Parenthood clinic for advice They want to know how to obtain medical care and abortions for underage prostitutes without getting into trouble with the law The clinic ma