nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp In principle as a Catholic Democrat I rsquo ve always rejoiced in the presence of Catholics in public life I remember as child a delegation coming to our house in Trenton to ask my father a World War I he

The U S bishops were more than pleased with today s unanimous Supreme Court ruling in the Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v EEOC In a groundbreaking decision that had been anxiously anticipated by religious bodies across the country the court held that a ministerial excepti

Today s Google Doodle honors Nicolas Steno the father of geology who also happened to be a Catholic bishop The Christian Science Monitor tells his story Don t feel bad if you ve never heard of Nicolas Steno Even though the 17th century Danish anatomist and geologist made a number of discoveries

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was the only dissenter standing in today s Supreme Court 8-1 decision to toss out a 1996 Louisiana quintuple life sentence Juan Smith had been convicted for two separate home invasions that resulted in multiple homicides The first now voided conviction led t

The Occupy movement is about to turn four months old and already is planning a host of events for 2012 See Occupy Together nbsp and InterOccupy nbsp for news on the larger movement and Occupy Wall Street nbsp for NYC-related developments Occupy Together lists 1508 Occupy sites globally Some o

Forbes reports that 5 former ambassadors to the Holy See signed a statement backing the Mormon candidate for president Mitt Romney passing over Catholic candiates Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum From the article Mitt Romney rsquo s Mormon background doesn rsquo t concern five former Catholic amb