March 19, 2012

As the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council unfolds over the next four years the struggle over its legacy and meaning will intensify It is a struggle that began almost as soon as the Council concluded in December 1965 In Vatican II The Battle for Meaning Massimo Fa

Give lay ministers the freedom to live their baptismal call.

Whatever else they did, the Irish forced "America to be America."

Minutes to Midnight; Afghanistan Burning; A Masterpiece of Translation

The unregulated sale and transfer of weapons harms the poor and threatens peace and security around the world, said the Vatican's UN representative.

The Mayan human rights activist Rosalina Tuyuc Velásquez of Guatemala is the winner of Japan’s Niwano Peace Prize.

Progress was unexpectedly made in January and February in reducing tensions with a charter member of the “axis of evil.”