Today is the Feast of Charles Lwanga and companions or the African martyrs or in Uganda the Ugandan martyrs nbsp I have a great devotion to the Ugandan martyrs having spent two years in East Africa where many Christian communities organizations and churches are dedicated to them nbsp B

The President gave a forceful speech in Pittsburgh yesterday calling for Congress to move forward on climate change legislation and linking the need for that legislation with the nightmare unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico That link is obvious and the President was brave to bring it up because pol

Chris Nelhig waits He stands in the midst of a group of fellow fishermen a few taking drags on cigarettes All are out of work Women and children in shorts and t-shirts sit beneath a tent which offers shade while others line up in folding chairs or sit on rails of a wooden ramp leading up to a t

Walking through the city of New Orleans it is all anyone can hear Whether tourist or native everyone speaks of the oily creep washing ashore across the Gulf the unnatural disaster unfolding across a city that has barely begun to emerge from the devastation of Katrina and a similar alarming hori

In preparing a homily for the Feast of Corpus Christi this Sunday I reread two of my favorite passages about belief in the Eucharist which I thought I rsquo d share nbsp with any priests or deacons looking for some inspiration for a homily and nbsp with any Catholic eager to reflect on this grea

ldquo Annulments are just for the rich rdquo nbsp ldquo The Church makes a great deal of money from annulments rdquo nbsp ldquo Just more hypocrisy from the Catholic Church--it teaches against divorce but figures out another way to give a divorce rdquo ldquo Total sham how can the Churc