To hear Cardinal Walter Kasper tell it he became the pope rsquo s point man for reform in the Catholic Church thanks to a bit of serendipity or if you will Providence before anyone knew that Francis was going to be the next Roman pontiff The genesis of their partnership Kasper recalled during

The work of James Baldwin should be more present in U.S. classrooms and added back to the Common Core.

Twenty-Five It does not seem like a significant number Twenty-five cents can buy a gumball It rsquo s the atomic number for the element manganese It is the number on the uniforms of baseball players Mark McGwire Barry Bonds and Mark Teixeira It rsquo s the minimum age for someone to run for t

In a homily he gave during Mass on May 9th at the Santa Marta guesthouse chapel Pope Francis looked around the congregation and said ldquo We are sinners everyone here And the Church is holy We are sinners but she the Church is holy hellip But how can it be holy if all of us are in it rdq

ldquo The general security situation in this country is awful rdquo says Msgr Nestor-D sir Nongo-Aziagbia bishop of Bossangoa in the Central African Republic ldquo Terrible rdquo he adds shaking his head sadly nbsp Behind him across the grounds of the archbishop rsquo s residence in Ba

Cambridge MA There has been a great deal of coverage during the last week about the Black Mass that will occur at Harvard tonight May 12 By tradition at least the Black Mass was and may still be an obscene parody of the Catholic Mass using a consecrated host Today rsquo s Crimson the camp