The New York Times is reporting that Kansas City Bishop Robert Finn and the diocese he leads have been indicted by a county grand jury on a charge of failure to report suspected child abuse in the case of a priest who had been accused of taking lewd photographs of young girls nbsp The Times rep

If you plan to be in New York City next week this is sure to be a lively conversation the Fordham University Center on Religion and Culture is sponsoring a panel discussion on faith and political responsibility Faithful Citizenship II Keeping the Faith in a Season of Spin will be held on the L

Through what is a kind of fluke really I am regularly offered two free tickets designated for the press to plays at the Marin Theater Company in Mill Valley in Marin County I had written a review for America of the Jesuit playwright Bill Cain s play Equivocation My review somehow came to t

Luke Hansen s writing may be known to America readers but his day job mdash as the volunteer coordinator at Red Cloud Indian School on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota mdash hasn t been quite so visible However a new special on ABC s 20 20 hopes to shed light on the land and pe

The Washington Post reports on an Episcopal parish in the Washington DC area that recently made the jump to full communion with the Catholic Church under new guidelines The Rev Mark Lewis awoke early on the last morning of his life as an Anglican priest and dressed in a suit and tie instead of

From Carol Zimmermann at Catholic News Service WASHINGTON CNS -- Since 2006 the U S Catholic bishops Migration and Refugee Services has helped more than 2 700 victims of human trafficking obtain food clothing and access to medical care That service has come to a halt because the agency re