On Dec 3 a Staten Island grand jury decided not to indict New York City police officer Daniel Pantaleo in the death of Eric Garner on July 17 The decision arrives less than two weeks after a grand jury on Nov 24 reached a similar decision in the case of Ferguson Mo police officer Darren Wil

Bishop John Kudrick has served as Byzantine Catholic ordinary of the Ruthenian Eparchy of Parma covering several Midwestern U S states since 2002 Born in Western Pennsylvania to a Byzantine Catholic father and Roman Catholic mother he grew up with the Roman Catholic Mass and joined the Third Or

The benefits of a stripped-to-essentials form of Christian monastic contemplation.

To her devotees, Amma is a concrete presence of the divine, a kind of living sacrament.

When we think of martyrs for justice in the world today the beatitudes that immediately spring to mind may be ldquo blessed are the peacemakers rdquo or even ldquo blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness rdquo We likely don rsquo t give much thought to the martyrs as the pur

Soon after Georgetown rsquo s adjunct faculty and administration modeled collaborative labor-management relations for the world in their recent contract negotiations faculty at another Catholic campus have opted for union representation Adjuncts at St Michael 39 s College in Vermont nbsp have v