In Lyons France an impish figure is causing a rift between a conservative Christian group on one side and the rector of the Catholic Cathedral on the other According to France 24 a stonemason working on the renovation fashioned a gargoyle after his friend and longtime construction manager Ahmed

In our current issue Archbishop Timothy M Dolan calls upon all Catholics to recommit themselves to the mission of Catholic education The truth is that the entire parish the whole diocese and the universal church benefit from Catholic schools in ways that keep communities strong Archbishop Dola

Religious leaders around the country are stepping forward to denounce acts of anti-Islamic bigotry emerging in the wake of the heated debate around the Park51 Islamic center proposed for lower Manhattan In a joint statement released at the National Press Club September 7 national religious figures

Perhaps we cloud this topic with euphemisms--but many a boy or growing young man who is poor at sports faces hurdles of bias loneliness and rejection Despite many ways of compensating intellectual musical artistic poor athletic coordination keeps many boys and young men alienated from their

Last week Archbishop Timothy Dolan the archbishop of New York invited me to join him on his weekly Sirius XM radio show on the Catholic Channel nbsp A radio show is a natural venue for the archbishop who as most American Catholics know by now is a friendly warm and genuinely happy priest

Belgian Cardinal Godfried Danneels whose attempts to mediate in a family dispute over one of his bishops who had abused his nephew ended in disaster was the subject of three previous posts here here and here which I rather agonised over caught up as I was in the human drama of it all The Ca