America s editorial this week calls Pope Benedict s 2011 statement on religious liberty the most extensive official treatment of the subject since Vatican II You can read our editorial here and a followup report on the pope s response to anti-Christian violence in Egypt and Iraq in this week s

America s editorial this week calls Pope Benedict s 2011 statement on religious liberty the most extensive official treatment of the subject since Vatican II You can read our editorial here and a followup report on the pope s response to anti-Christian violence in Egypt and Iraq in this week s S

An elderly Jesuit long experienced in interfaith dialogue once told me ruefully These days it s easier to talk nbsp with people of nbsp other faiths than it is to talk with other Christians nbsp Strangely some interpret the call to charity and civility in the nbsp Christian and Catholic nb

The AP reports DUBLIN ndash A 1997 letter from the Vatican warned Ireland s Catholic bishops not to report all suspected child-abuse cases to police mdash a disclosure that victims groups described as the smoking gun needed to show that the church enforced a worldwide culture of covering u

In his speech after the tragic shooting of 19 people in Tucson President Obama brought great consolation to the American people He explained his presence in humble terms ldquo as an American rdquo come to mourn with all those present But he played another very significant role however The p

The cover of this week s Economist above says it well This is America s image today a culture wherein the solution to any problem from an imagined insult to a paranoid fear of big government is resolved at gun point nbsp Blame movies and TV crime shows where the heroes and bad guys all tote