There are few issues in the 2012 presidential campaign on which the major candidates have more clearly differentiated opinions.
Cardinal Oscar Rodríguez Maradiaga called young people between 18 and 24 “an amazing pool of talent we must tap into if we are to relieve poverty in our lifetime.”
Demonstrators claim Pakistani officials raised funds for displaced families and offered to help resettle them but has not lived up to these commitments.
A new study notes an uptick on social intolerance and government restrictions on religion around the world and in the United States between 2009 and mid-2010.
About 3,000 students at Fordham University cheered as the comedian Stephen Colbert joined Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York and James Martin, S.J., in a discussion of faith, humor and spirituality.