Her scholarship and advocacy are universally respected in the Catholic community.

Noah is a timely hero Whatever Hollywood makes of his story in the Bible Noah is a just man who believes that catastrophic climate change is upon him and acts According to Jesus rsquo account of the ancient narrative Luke 17 27 ldquo Everybody kept on eating and drinking men and women marri

There are days when doubt clouds my mood But not Tuesday I was headed out to Bensonhurst to scope out a possible column that morning On the way out along the Grand Central Parkway I suddenly thought of my friend Jack a classic post-Vatican II Irish street priest with a big personality and a lov

Pope Francis offered more evidence today of his commitment to Vatican II era collegiality In a letter posted by the Vatican news service the pope announced today that he was elevating the position of the nbsp undersecretary of the synod secretariat to the episcopacy to demonstrate that quot we ca

On April 2 the Assembly of the Catholic Ordinaries of the Holy Land issued a historic communiqu asking ldquo Are Christians being persecuted in the Mideast rdquo The bishops answer lsquo Yes but rsquo because the question ignores the persecution of Muslims as well as Christians See below

A 75-year-old Dutch Jesuit who refused to leave war-torn Syria instead staying in Homs to help the poor and homeless was beaten by armed men and killed with two bullets to the head according to an email sent by the Jesuits 39 Middle East province to the Jesuit headquarters in Rome Jesuit Father