Supporters of Scottish independence did not see the result they were hoping for but it is fair to say that democracy won in a national referendum that included 85 percent of Scotland rsquo s eligible voters At eight minutes past six on Friday morning Sept 19 ldquo No rdquo crossed the line T

Americans looking for a signal as to the kind of men Pope Francis hopes to put in leadership in dioceses like Chicago might turn their attention to Sydney where Bishop Anthony Fisher O P 54 was just announced as the next archbishop of Australia rsquo s only cardinalatial seat nbsp Bishop Fishe

I was born in Scotland in 1960 to an Irish mother and Scottish father all four of my grandparents were Irish Growing up in Scotland I never felt uncomfortable having quot dual nationality quot Indeed I am now the proud owner of two passports one British and one Irish Both of these documents m

Mark P Shea is a Washington-based Catholic writer blogger and speaker Raised as an agnostic pagan he became a non-denominational Protestant Evangelical in 1979 before converting to Catholicism in 1987 In addition to a number of books and regular articles in Catholic periodicals Mr Shea is au

Whooping cough is back because more and more parents are refusing vaccination.

Pope Francis has invited the President of China Xi Jinping to meet him in the Vatican to discuss world peace but he has also expressed his own willingness to travel ldquo tomorrow rdquo to Beijing for this same purpose if that were preferable He issued the invitation in a letter which he signe