Fr Mychal Judge the fallen chaplain of the Fire Department of New York City will be honored with a statue in front of his former parish according to a story from Religion News Services via The Huffington Post When All Saints Church sought to signal its hospitality to gays and lesbians the Ca

If you live on the East Coast or even if you don t you re probably aware that Hurricane Irene is expected to travel up the I-95 corridor this weekend New York City already has announced that its public transportation will shut down beginning at noon on Saturday This combination of dangerous wea

Bill Keller the outgoing editor of the New York Times pens a column in the NYT magazine this week seeking answers to questions about the religious beliefs of GOP presidential candidates and how those beliefs might impact their governance He snidely suggests that if a candidate claimed belief in

Since Fr Jim Martin our culture editor is away in the Holy Land researching his next book follow him on Facebook for daily reports I will highlight this latest film review by Michael V Tueth S J The Help is a film adaptation of Kathryn Stockett rsquo s best-selling first novel about tellin

The unexpectedly rapid fall of the house of Qaddafi has given many in the media an opportunity to speculate on whether the rebel victory constitutes a political ldquo win rdquo for Obama His controversial decision to involve U S forces in the campaign to oust the colonel six months ago was much

A memo from the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate CARA at Georgetown University offers some stats worth worrying over The Great Recession appears to have had a significant effect on U S fertility and infant baptisms have tracked that overall decline Fewer babies have been part of t