Religious freedom We were against it before we were for it The papacy at one time unreservedly condemned religious freedom as ldquo madness rdquo but now U S bishops condemn any restrictions on it Earning interest on a loan The Vatican condemned this practice then it allowed the idea and s

Charity is a book that gives away with one hand even while it takes back with the other On the one hand the book written by a Scripture scholar who is the Hesburgh Professor of Catholic Theology at the University of Notre Dame underlines the urgency and the prominence of almsgiving in both patri

Marie Arana’s stirring biography, 'Bolívar: American Liberator'

Mary Oliver in her poem ldquo The Morning Paper rdquo wants to know ldquo What keeps us from falling down our faces to the ground ashamed ashamed rdquo after we read through countless news stories of ldquo disasters the unbelievable yet approved decisions rdquo One way of both groundin

In December 1944 as winter arrived across bomb-ravaged Europe the Allied armies striving to crush Hitler rsquo s monstrous war machine had cause for optimism Though bloody and chaotic the D-Day invasion six months earlier had been a success American and British troops were advancing through Fran

During the middle decades of the 20th century one of the best known Maryknoll priests in the United States was John J Considine who was widely admired for his books lectures and editorial supervision of Maryknoll rsquo s superlative mission magazine The Field Afar In 1963 Maryknoll rsquo s su