Frank Brennan SJ is one of most well known Australian Catholics nbsp The Australian Jesuit priest and lawyer has been in the forefront of human-rights work and has spent much of his time working on behalf of the Aboriginal peoples in his country nbsp On his Facebook page he has weighed in on t

In their ongoing campaign to make a recent editorial from America completely irrelevant thanks USCCB the bishops have issued another caution on the upcoming budget debtates Also see Circle Drawn Around Social Services in U S Budget Bishops Call on Senate to Protect Poor and Vulnerable P

It s proved difficult to get another Catholic as president into the White House but it seems we are locking down the position of House Chaplain Eleven years ago after some controversial missteps Chicago s Father Dan Coughlin became the 59th chaplain of the House of Representatives and the fir

From the New York Times House Speaker John A Boehner will nominate the Rev Patrick J Conroy a Jesuit priest and former Georgetown University chaplain to become the 60th House chaplain ldquo We are honored that Father Conroy has agreed to serve as House chaplain rdquo Mr Boehner said in a s

The Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams is very annoying He says the thing that really ought not to be said at the moment when nobody wants to hear it and says it what is more with gentle force causing people to stop in their tracks and reconsider It is a very unpopular thing to do esp

After a bishop pleaded guilty today in an Ottowa court of possessing child pornography -- 588 images 60 videos -- the Vatican said it will be following canonical procedures against him resulting in the appropriate disciplinary or penal measures Given that Raymond Lahey stood down as head of t