Like many Americans I enjoy a good historical film on the Fourth of July But as a Catholic I sometimes have a hard time finding a movie on Independence Day that tells America rsquo s story from a Catholic perspective Many of our beloved July 4 classics retell American history from the victors rsq

I am not accustomed to writing to anyone of importance, of royal lineage or otherwise.

"There is a future for individual gay people in the Catholic Church that doesn’t require repression, or self-hatred, or being totally alone."

Bishop Eusebio Elizondo auxiliary bishop of Seattle and chairman of the U S Conference of Catholic Bishops rsquo Committee on Migration called upon the Obama Administration on July 2 to reconsider its request to Congress for ldquo fast track rdquo authority to expedite the removal of unaccompa

I never expected to see Father Henry Davis rsquo s Moral and Pastoral Theology 1935 cited in a Supreme Court opinion But there it was in footnote 34 of Justice Samuel Alito rsquo s opinion in Burwell v Hobby Lobby in which the Court ruled that two non-Catholic families the Greens and the Hahns

It rsquo s starting to feel like 2014 is the year of faith-based movies At the very least 2014 is the year Hollywood decided to court the Judeo-Christian film market for the first time in several years Although ldquo Son of God rdquo and ldquo Noah rdquo have received most of the box office an