The bad news continues to leak out of the Boston archdiocese The archdiocese was again in the headlines today with a report that Boston may have to confront more shutdowns of parish and or church facilities after a nbsp radical reshuffling nbsp that would unite Boston s 291 parishes into 80 to 12

Caritas Secretary General Lesley-Anne Knight the first woman to hold that position bid farewell May 27 to the Caritas community at its general assembly in Rome Knight had just finished to four-year term and was expected to be reappointed but her candidacy for the position was waved off by the cu

A truly scary warning from Moody rsquo s Investor Services was issued yesterday but if the credit rating service hoped to end the brinkmanship over the U S debt ceiling it appears so far to have succeeded only in provoking deeper heel-digging in Congress Moody s said June 2 that ldquo if there

Even as the North and South Sudan sought to extricate themselves from the crisis in Abyei more evidence emerged today that violence will prove a plague on both sides of Sudan s border Citing confidential U N documents it has acquired the Associated Press is reporting that Southern Sudan soldiers

A Tijuana priest missing for over a week has become the latest casualty of the growing violence in Mexico Fides reports that Father Salvador Ruiz Enciso 51 disappeared from his parish in the city of Tijuana northern Mexico near the border with the United States DNA from a body found May 23 bu

Bibi Netanyahu s unprecedented second appearance before the U S Congress was widely applauded by member of Congress who couldn t stop getting to their feet It was less well received in some other corners the Oval Office for one if it had a corner according to Joe Klein writing in Time Of all th

Much talk these days swirls around the impending crisis over the national debt ceiling That rsquo s certainly true within the friendly mostly confines of America rsquo s Web site It rsquo s too bad there rsquo s no painless way around the debt crisis It looks like the U S middle and upper clas

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