The Diocese of Baton Rouge has protested a Louisiana Supreme Court ruling that a Catholic priest must either break the seal of the confessional in a sex abuse hearing or face jail time On July 7 the Baton Rouge diocese issued a statement protesting the ruling against Father Jeff Bayhi who allegedl

James Carville nbsp is a New Orleans-based nbsp political pundit and media personality nbsp who is a major figure in the Democratic Party Nicknamed quot the Ragin 39 Cajun quot he rose to national fame as the chief political strategist of then-Arkansas governor Bill Clinton rsquo s successful

Australia's sacred Rock speaks in the elemental and universal language of natural beauty.

New York N Y July 11 2014 ndash nbsp Father Matt Malone S J editor in chief of America announced today the appointment of Sr Mary Ann Walsh R S M as U S Church Correspondent Sister Walsh is the current Director of Media Relations for the U S Conference of Catholic Bishops and will

Pope Francis is well on the way to achieving a total and radical reform of the Vatican rsquo s finances That became abundantly clear on July 9 when the Australian cardinal George Pell the man he appointed to spearhead that reform presented the New Economic Framework for the Holy See at a crowded

Ramesh Ponnuru nbsp is a Washington D C -based columnist for Bloomberg View a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a nbsp senior editor nbsp for National Review nbsp magazine He is a regular contributor to nbsp Time nbsp magazine and nbsp WashingtonPost com His writing has al