Dan Gilgoff who covers and covers very well the religion beat for US News amp World Report nbsp has this news about the Obama administration gearing up to address the abortion issue head on nbsp Gilgoff nbsp says that Obama will announce his plan as early as this summer nbsp Get ready n

Same-sex marriage may be the new third rail in the culture wars Touch it at your peril Emotions understandably get worked up very quickly on all sides It is difficult to tell someone who is in a long-term committed same-sex relationship that you value their relationship differently from the wa

Tonight at Fordham University was the opening session of a conference on Faith and Reason 2009 A Dialogue at the Heart of Jesuit Education The opening speaker was someone who comes as close as academia can get to a superstar and he is apparently steroid-free philosopher Charles Taylor Spea

The usually mild-mannered Paul Baumann editor in chief of Commonweal left nbsp has taken nbsp aim at Joseph Bottum editor of First Things right writing in the Weekly Standard nbsp Don t let all that concatenation of magazine names fool you this is nbsp important stuff nbsp nbsp What s

This morning the Holy Father named Father J Augustine DiNoia O P as the new Secretary at the Congregation for Divine Worship Father DiNoia will be elevated to the dignity of an archbishop and has been assigned the titular see of Oregon City Most bishops and archbishops reside in their own dioce

Yesterday a two-member Elections Board yes two-member sometimes you can rsquo t make this stuff up ruled that the citizens of the District of Columbia have no right to vote on whether or not to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other jurisdictions Whatever you think of the issue of gay