Rumors of a budget deal scattered about Washington today only to be denied by officials from the Obama administration and Speaker of the House John Boehner rsquo s office mdash just the latest development in the high-stakes ldquo don rsquo t call my bluff rdquo poker game that has transfixed the n

After reading a nauseating nbsp article about lavish tree play houses for kids in the New York Times I needed something to bring the world back to sanity although Fr James Martin s picture helped Robert Ellsberg publisher for Orbis Books wrote a fantastic piece on his personal experience with

Stephen Colbert host of the always funny Colbert Report on Comedy Central and one who never shies away from expressing his deep Catholic faith see some clips here contributed to the It Gets Better campaign Colbert who rarely speaks out of character gets serious for a few minutes in this video

The Irish prime minister Enda Kenny yesterday launched a bizarre rambling attack on the Vatican accusing it of attempting to frustrate an enquiry into failures of church leadership over clerical abuse and claiming that the Cloyne Report showed the dysfunction disconnection elitism and narciss

The USCCB is not happy with a new report from the Institute of Medicine Among other new health care services the report Clinical Preventive Services for Women Closing the Gap recommends that the Department of Health and Human Services HHS mandate coverage of surgical sterilization and all F

Over at the National Catholic Reporter John Allen has published a lengthy and comprehensive interview with the newly appointed Archbishop of Philadelphia Charles Chaput O F M Cap The two men had a very candid conversation and according to Allen the archbishop put no limits on the topics to be