nbsp I am getting ready to teach in the spring semester at Fordham and one of my courses is a graduate class called Theology of Ministry Every year I feel the impossibility of saying something with solidity about a topic that is deeply elusive So many ministries are worthy of study in their exp

The Catechism says that every sign of unjust discrimination must be avoided when it comes to gays and lesbians.

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The U S bishops were more than pleased with today s unanimous Supreme Court ruling in the Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v EEOC In a groundbreaking decision that had been anxiously anticipated by religious bodies across the country the court held that a ministerial excepti

Today s Google Doodle honors Nicolas Steno the father of geology who also happened to be a Catholic bishop The Christian Science Monitor tells his story Don t feel bad if you ve never heard of Nicolas Steno Even though the 17th century Danish anatomist and geologist made a number of discoveries

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was the only dissenter standing in today s Supreme Court 8-1 decision to toss out a 1996 Louisiana quintuple life sentence Juan Smith had been convicted for two separate home invasions that resulted in multiple homicides The first now voided conviction led t