This week we have been featuring videos on our home page from the Truth Commission on Conscience in War held in March in Riverside Church here in New York The Truth Commission was set up to provide greater protection for moral conscience in war for those in military service At the March event se

From the USCCB website Bishop Bishop Gerald F Kicanas of Tucson Arizona Vice-president of the U S Conference of Catholic Bishops testified before Congress on the ethical imperative for reform of the U S immigration system He spoke before the House Subcommittee on Immigration Citizenship Re

As part of his doctoral research in the education program at St Louis University in the 1990s Michael Maher studied the attitudes toward student homosexuality in Catholic high schools He was shocked by the silence about this topic When he met with four experienced Catholic school counselors wit

Today a 30-day online retreat that is one in which you can follow the suggestions for meditation by viewing a new web page each day begins nbsp nbsp It is sponsored by the Jesuit Refugee Service USA and follows the Spiritual Exercises nbsp of St Ignatius Loyola nbsp In his 19th Annotation

Polling of all sorts always contains a margin of error usually about 3 percent though it pays to check each poll Of course some pollsters can at times be just plain wrong or worse even biased This should make readers wary of their predictions Since some online comments in response to more th

It is 7 a m British time and the results of yesterday rsquo s U S election have reached London There were few surprises one of those rare moments in recent American politics when the polls and pundits got it right The question on everybody s mind of course is what the results mean When folks