Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York said Islamic State militants terrorizing the Middle East are a distortion of ldquo genuine rdquo Islam much as the Irish Republican Army was a ldquo perversion rdquo of Catholicism Dolan rsquo s comments to CNN on March 3 reflect similar statements about the Is

'I hope we show the church as something more than an entity that needs to be tamed.'

Speaking at a university conference is always a near occasion of pretentiousness.

If an academic pedigree is an indication the hierarchy of the U S bishops took a big step forward with the promotion of Auxiliary Bishop Robert W McElroy of San Francisco to Bishop of San Diego on March 3 News of the appointment was broken by blogger Rocco Palmo March 2 The 61-year-old prelate

An interview with the Archbishop of Washington, D.C.

As the Vatican prepares for the Synod of Bishops on the Family Oct 4 to 25 various individuals and groups are offering input on issues they want the synod to address I asked several U S Catholic pastors and other experts to note issues on which people go to clergy for help Most emphasized famil