UPDATE A referendum approving an amendment to the Irish constitution which will legalize same sex marriage has passed by a large margin as early polls had predicted The only surprise is how well the quot yes quot vote did across all segments of Irish society Many had predicted a generational di

A few small but significant steps toward ending the suffering of Rohingya Muslims adrift on the Andaman Sea have been made in recent days Responding to broad international criticism of previous decisions to turn away boatloads of Rohingya landing on their shores Southeast Asian regional powers Mal

A Federal jury sentenced Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death today. The decision for death was reached despite a strong pushback against the use of capital punishment in the case from Boston Cardinal Sean O’Malley and the Massachusetts Catholic Conference of Bishops and the appea

Pointless exercises in provocation deserve to be deplored.

Catholic Relief Services and its partners within the Caritas Internationalis network of relief and development agencies have begun looking to what lies ahead for Nepal as the poverty-stricken nation recovers from a devastating earthquake.America got a frontline report on May 6 from Jennifer Hardy, a

Retired baseball commissioner Fay Vincent has had his own experiences with tough disciplinary calls but on his two most famous cases mdash those of Cincinnati Red Pete Rose and New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner mdash wrongdoing was never in doubt ldquo It was just a question of the punis

Catholic Relief Services continues efforts to respond to Nepal's devastating earthquake.

'We are having the wrong debate.'

Three days after Archbishop William Lori’s city of Baltimore was rocked by civil unrest that began as a young man who died while in police custody was laid to rest, the archbishop was pondering how the local church could respond to the crisis in the city’s streets.“We’re not

Three days after his city was rocked by civil unrest that began as a young man who died while in police custody was laid to rest, Baltimore Archbishop William Lori was pondering how the local church could respond to the crisis in the city’s streets.