On this Independence Day when the flags are unfurled and whipping in the summer breeze and the bunting is put out and the picnic tables are festooned with the arrangement of hamburgers and hot dogs the pickles and the pretzels and potato chips macaroni and potato salads and don rsquo t forget th

Getting older is about to get a lot tougher if a recent article in The Irish Times is to be believed According to bureaucrats politicians and social scientists in Japan the latest phenomenon to become worried about is the problem of how to handle the increasing growth of what is called the ldqu

Cardinal Peter Turkson President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace took ldquo Laudato Si rsquo rdquo on the road presenting the ldquo green encyclical rdquo from Pope Francis to a packed audience during a special conference at the United Nations on June 30 nbsp Turkson told hi

At this moment four new books on or by Pope Francis mdash four in an endless flood several every week of pope publications which have swept across my office desk in the months since the publishing world decided there was no limit to the market for a man who in the earlier stages of his career decl

'The New Evangelization happens every day in our Catholic schools.'

The Eighth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States prohibits the infliction of cruel and unusual punishments. It has long been established that this ban does not categorically rule out the death penalty.