An exchange of letters between G O P budgetary whiz-kid Wisconsin nbsp Rep Paul Ryan and N Y Archbishop and U S C C B President Tim Dolan may offer some political cover to Republican Catholics like Ryan and House Speaker John Boehner R-Ohio as they make their case for the House budget and prov

lt lt The American Psychiatric Association Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders Fourth Edition Text Revision DSM-IV-TR criteria for Pedophilia 302 2 are A Over a period of at least 6 months recurrent intense sexually arousing fantasies sexual urges or behaviors invol

A report prepared by researchers from New York rsquo s John Jay College of Criminal Justice on the abuse of children by Catholic priests in the United States offers a complex portrait of the reasons that led to the sexual assaults that will probably not satisfy anyone looking for simple answers or e

The National Research Council of the National Academies released a report on May 12 in another addition nbsp to the scientific consensus on the reality of climate change and the various hazards posed by the phenomenon According to the report the last in the ldquo America rsquo s Climate Choices r

Can a 16th-century discipline improve modern scholarship?

They may not be ready for a ride in a surrey someone stop me but NCR reports on what may be an effort by the bishops committee on doctrine to repair the relationship with U S theologians and Fordham faculty in the aftermath of its critique of Sr Elizabeth Johnson rsquo s Quest for the Living G

According to Reuters and other news services Archbishop Giovanni Innocenzo Martinelli Apostolic Vicar of Tripoli has apparently reported that nbsp Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has been wounded following recent NATO airstrikes and has probably left Tripoli The archbishop was cited as a source fo

Christian minorities have endured brutal treatment in Egypt and Vietnam over the last few days Events in Egypt where an ultra-conservative Islamic group mdash emboldened by the new freedom delivered by the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak mdash has lashed out at Egypt s Coptic minority have been

Our apologies good friendsfor the fracture of good order the burning of paperinstead of children the angering of the orderliesin the front parlor of the charnel houseWe could not so help us God do otherwiseFor we are sick at heart our heartsgive us no rest for thinking of the Land of Burning Childr

In their ongoing campaign to make a recent editorial from America completely irrelevant thanks USCCB the bishops have issued another caution on the upcoming budget debtates Also see Circle Drawn Around Social Services in U S Budget Bishops Call on Senate to Protect Poor and Vulnerable P