It was no surprise that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was convicted on all 30 counts in the Boston Marathon bomber trial on April 8; in an opening statement, his attorneys had conceded his guilt in the April 2013 horror at the finish line. The State of Massachusetts bars the use of capital punishment, but Tsarn

As congressional opponents of the ldquo Lausanne framework rdquo agreement with Iran prepped for Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearings tomorrow proponents of the deal meant to hamstring Iran rsquo s purported nuclear weapons development got some help today from the U S bishops Las Cruces

Massachusetts bishops reject the use of capital punishment.

Chicago journalism legend Robert McClory and Vatican II reporter Robert Blair Kaiser

Congratulations to America editors James Martin S J and Kerry Weber who double-teamed the Christopher Awards today Jim Martin earned his for Jesus A Pilgrimage Harper One Harper Collins Publishers and Kerry Weber won in the same ldquo books for adults rdquo category with Mercy in the City

Netanyahu threw all caution—and hope for a resolution of this 67-year conflict—to the wind.

His campaign appearance in Washington seems to have backfired on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu but when all else fails and you 39 re slipping in the polls who ya gonna call That 39 s right Chuck Norris In what may prove the oddest of political bedfellowing Walker Texas Ranger and D

If for a second Óscar Romero had glanced through the open doors of the chapel, would he have seen the young man taking aim? Would he have been afraid? Would he have been tempted to flee?

Officials of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops warn that the Syrian refugee crisis—four million people have fled the war-torn state—has reached a dangerous “tipping point.” Turkey alone has absorbed almost two million refugees from Syria and is now the only regional pow

According to a report in nbsp Avvenire the weekly newspaper of the Italian Bishops Conference the beatification of El Salvador 39 s martyred Archbishop Oscar Romero will take place on May 23 at a ceremony in El Salvador the day before Pentecost Sunday The date was announced yesterday as Monsign