It should come as no surprise least of all to his campaign staff that Rick Santorum elevated to contender in the GOP race is now getting a level of scrutiny previously reserved for and let s see if I get the order right Gingrich Paul sorta Cain Perry and Bachman Now taking his turn as a

No ticker-tape parade will mark the end of this war.

Chicago s Cardinal George came out swinging Wed in a local throwdown between a Catholic parish and the organizers of the upcoming Gay Pride parade in June 2012 Asked by a local television news reporter to comment on the complaint of the pastor of a parish on the parade route that parishioners woul

Trinity Wall Street one of NY s largest landlords has been described as a real estate company with an altar The church and the OWS movement evicted from the public space at Zuccotti Park have become embroiled in a fight over some unoccupied space owned by Trinity near Wall Street that shows n

Czech President Vaclav Havel is being remembered as a revolutionary and an artist an accidental political leader during a period of rapid change He is also being remembered by some as a spiritual seeker who understood that man and a healthy social order do not live by the bread of democracy alone

According to a CNS story I overlooked that was posted earlier this week Mercy Sister Margaret McBride has been restored to Catholic in good standing status Sister McBride s automatic excommunication was publicly noted by Phoenix Bishop Thomas Olmsted because of her role in approving an abortion

The good news of course for America is that U S troops are returning home and the costly adventure in Iraq drawing to a close According to the timetable endorsed by Iraq and the United States virtually all U S troops should be on their way home by the end of December The bad news What is to

Newt Gingrich is the current front-runner in the game of musical chairs that s standing in for the GOP presidential campaign this year but it s suddenly not clear if Gingrich hopes to take up office in Washington or Jerusalem--is he trying to beat Obama Romney or Netanyahu His recent comments app

Last week when I wrote about the contretemps between the Pew Forum and Catholic Relief Services and U S C C B over the precise figures for the advocacy work undertaken by the two Catholic entities I relied on previous Pew statements in my possession to cobble together the forum s response This

How accurate were recent figures cited by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life nbsp in their recent report on advocacy lobbying by religious entities in Washington The report Lobbying for the Faithful garnered national attention and the figure Pew calculated for U S C C B advocacy what