It s nearly impossible to argue that the Benedictine monks of St Joseph Abbey in Louisiana should not be allowed to sell their simple handmade wooden caskets Unless of course you re a funeral director concerned about your own profits According to CNS Louisiana law allows only licensed funera

Capturing memories without the camera

The neighborhood surrounding the Nativity Mission Center a Jesuit-run middle school on Manhattan s Lower East Side has undergone significant changes over the past few decades Increasing gentrification has resulted in positive changes like fewer worries about prostitutes or neighborhood drug deal

There s been some debate in the U K over who should pay for the upcoming papal visit According to the BBC nbsp The total bill for the invited visit mdash without the cost of police and security mdash is estimated by the Foreign Office to be about pound 15m Of this pound 7m will come from t

During my travels to New Orleans this past June I saw first-hand the good work that Catholic Charities of New Orleans is doing to help those affected by the oil spill in the Gulf including Chris Nelhig the fisherman pictured at right Catholic Charities has provided food rent assistance and cou

Geoffrey Berg author of The Six Ways of Atheism recently challenged Pope Benedict XVI to a public debate about the existence of God which Berg hopes will take place during Benedict rsquo s upcoming visit to the U K In an open letter to the pope a copy of which also was sent directly to the Vati

Those who never got around to reading Jesus of Nazareth might have a better chance of getting through Pope Benedict XVI s latest work a children s book The 48-page book is called The Friends of Jesus and is based on texts from the pope s Wednesday general audiences The cover illustration by an It

From a U S C C B press release WASHINGTON mdash Archbishop Donald W Wuerl of Washington Chairman of the Committee on Doctrine of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops USCCB responded to a clarification from the Vatican that raised the attempted ordination of a women to a ldquo mor

For anyone concerned that undocumented immigrants are taking jobs from American citizens the United Farm Workers has a response Come take them back nbsp The UFW has started a Web site called takeourjobs org nbsp A statement posted on the site s homepage clarifies the message There are two is

Approximately 11 percent of teachers at Catholic elementary schools are male including priests and brothers and in a recent piece on The Washington Post rsquo s nbsp ldquo On Faith rdquo blog guest contributor Mark Judge argues that this number is far too low He writes ldquo This imbalance