I spent my Saturday with twelve men in cages It s hard to imagine that in the United States we put inmates in cages but in the Secured Housing Unit of the prison where I volunteer we do In the SHU inmates who are privileged to attend Catholic services are escorted from their housing to ind
Here s a stunning development nbsp reported by Catholic News Service nbsp about the popular Marian shrine at Medjugorje in Bosnia-Herzegovina which demonstrates the Vatican s continued reluctance about the site nbsp The sanctions are about as severe as can be leveled against a priest sho
Evans and Novak Brooks and Shields Now we have Winters and Malone Listen to In All Things blogger Michael Sean Winters and America associate editor Matt Malone S J discuss the two party conventions on our special election 2008 podcast This is the first of a series of podcasts on the election
John McCain helped restore his reputation for straight talk when he finally referred the GOP sin that dare not speak its name I am grateful to the president of the United States hellip Of course not even McCain could call the president by name the only Bush mentioned by name was Laura McCain
Amid a chorus of hoots hollers and the occasional jeer Rudy Giuliani gave the keynote speech on Wednesday night Day 3 of the Republican National Convention Giuliani set the tone for the evening aggressively launching criticisms at the Democratic ticket Giuliani s claims ranged from the sligh
With the GOP convention wrapping up tonight Matt Malone S J and Kathleen Kennedy Townsend continue their discussion of E J Dionne s Souled Out lt i gt and the broader issue of religion and politics In his latest post Matt writes Dionne argues in his book that the religiosity of the Bus