Forbes released its list of the top 100 colleges in the U S earlier this month eight Catholic schools made the list four of them Jesuit institutions Notre Dame ranked highest among Catholic schools at 18 Below nbsp are the Catholic higher education institutions that made the top 100 along wit

On my first day as a freshman at the University of Pennsylvania in August of 1978 aka the Dark Ages I was somewhat confused nbsp To say the least nbsp While I had pored over the voluminous information about dormitory life that Penn had helpfully sent in a thick envelope yes you rsquo ll be s

Whatever one thinks of the ldquo trickle down theory rdquo of economic growth this much is clear the economic burdens of the Great Recession have not trickled down but have rained down like a deluge soaking some groups much more than others Between 2005 and 2009 Hispanic and black families lo

Quietly and steadily President Obama has pursued two very different legacy goals that stand to benefit the nation for decades he has diversified the judiciary at its highest levels and set new fuel emissions standards for medium- and heavy-duty vehicles Consider the first In two Supreme Court ap

Maps have border lines The earth itself does not Human life demands drawing boundaries but God rsquo s life knows none While we live we constantly claim what we consider to be our own and we define ourselves both by who we are mdash and who we are not If religion were entirely divinely wrough

You may see a second collection this weekend at your parish to raise money to respond to the famine in Somalia but if you are looking for a way to pitch in before then Catholic News Service put together a handy list of relief agencies which I am posting below The following international aid agenc