Our own Father Jim Martin was on call last night at his other job as chaplain to the Colbert Nation Father Martin tried gamely once again to explain matters spiritual to Colbert but it remains unclear how much is getting through See for yourself below

Monday night on the Daily Show Jon Stewart described the collapse in the stock market investment in favor of U S Treasury bonds as akin to a guy torching your house and then asking if he can store his cash in your basement nbsp There rsquo s also something of Heisenberg rsquo s Uncertainty Princ

A very disturbing article from the upcoming issue of the New York Times magazine As Jenny lay on the obstetrician rsquo s examination table she was grateful that the ultrasound tech had turned off the overhead screen She didn rsquo t want to see the two shadows floating inside her Since making h

Just posted to our Web site Margot Patterson on the threat of sectarian conflict in Syria With protesters calling for the downfall of the Assad regime religious minorities are nervous of what will follow should the regime fall mdash and what kind of treatment they will receive in the inter

Catholic Relief Services is launching a special appeal to deal with the escalating famine crisis in the Horn of Africa The agnecy released a press release today that includes a request from U S C C B president and N Y nbsp Archbishop Timothy M Dolan and Bishop Gerald F Kicanas chairman of the

Last week I threw out my files on Osama Bin Laden rsquo s death mdash which I am more prone to call a murder or an assassination mdash because new and perhaps bigger questions keep leaping up at us and I have to make room in both my head and in my files and desk space for new problems But Nic