The refugee crisis emerging in Syria as that nation disintegrates into outright civil war highlights the plight of refugees worldwide according to officials with the U S Conference of Catholic Bishops rsquo Office of Migration and Refugee Services Not only is that worsening conflict producing it
In what has become a continuing unhappy subplot of the dispute over the contraceptive mandate a third Catholic university has now asked the National Labor Relations Board for an exemption from the Wagner Act on the grounds of its religious identity Adjunct faculty at Pittsburgh rsquo s Duquesne Un
I occasionally hear some complain that they wish Christianity were tougher meaner and more masculine That rsquo s always struck nbsp me as odd but some Christians are acting on that desire From USA Today Finally someone is making a movie that answers an important question Can you love your
As a parent I am witness daily to the mysteries of my daughter s growing-up and find myself rehearsing memories of my own childhood This is an experience that many parents have Noticing the substantial theological influences from books cartoons and games in my daughter s life has made me
In our church it pays more to rebel than to faithfully question The Vatican under Benedict XVI is doing somersaults to get the excommunicated anti-semitic Lefebvrists back into the church rsquo s tent First the Vatican said that the Society of St Pius X SSPX had to agree to accept the teach
Written somewhere over the Atlantic on the way home to Boston from London - after 3 weeks of travels Let me sketch for you a little overview of my travels so as to draw from the experience a more general conclusion mdash one nbsp that ties in very well I think with the Sunday Gospel for Jun