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In All Things
January 07, 2015

In All Things
January 05, 2015
What percentage of the incoming Congress has been educated by Jesuits?
A boy walks on the rubble of damaged buildings in Aleppo, Syria in November 2014. (CNS photo/Hosam Katan, Reuters)
News
January 02, 2015
Human rights groups deplores 'silence of the international community' in face of war crimes.
Mario Cuomo in 1991
In All Things
January 02, 2015
Three-term New York Governor Mario Cuomo passed away on New Year 39 s Day at the age of 82 only hours after his son Andrew Cuomo was inaugurated in Manhattan for a second term as governor ldquo He couldn rsquo t be here physically today my father rdquo Andrew Cuomo said during his inaugural a
HOMECOMING. After five years of captivity in Cuba, Alan Gross returned on Dec. 17.
Signs Of the Times
December 23, 2014
Watching a Vatican-brokered diplomatic breakthrough in De-cember that may lead to the normalization of relations between the United States and the island nation of Cuba, Eusebio Mujal-León was hardly a disinterested bystander. A professor at Georgetown University, Mujal-León is the director of a G
A worshipper smokes a cigar beside a painting in the shrine of St. Lazarus in the town of El Rincon, Cuba, in December 2013. (CNS photo/Desmond Boylan, Reuters)
News
December 19, 2014
Watching a Vatican-brokered diplomatic breakthrough in December that may lead to the normalization of relations between the United States and the island-nation of Cuba Eusebio Mujal-Le n was hardly a disinterested bystander A professor and former Chair of the Department of Government at Georgetow
Cuban President Fidel Castro gestures to Pope John Paul II in Havana in 1998. It was the first visit to Cuba by a pope, and the Polish pontiff used it to appeal for greater religious rights. (CNS photo/Reuters)
News
December 17, 2014
American Alan Gross has been released in an apparent exchange with Cuba that has allowed the United States to proceed with a historic normalization of relations with Cuba after decades of hostility suspicion and economic embargo that has previously been lamented by Vatican officials as unproductive
In All Things
December 12, 2014
Two years after a school shooting in Newtown Conn horrified the nation not much has changed in terms of U S gun laws and the number of weapons in circulation in the United States has only increased Worst of all according to one gun-control advocacy group 94 other school shooting incidents ha
FALSE SECURITY. Ballistic missiles at a Russian parade.
Signs Of the Times
December 11, 2014
The Catholic Church seemed to throw its support behind what is, in Europe at least, an accelerating movement toward the abolition of nuclear weapons during the first day, Dec. 8, of the Vienna Conference on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons.In a message to the conference participants from P
Dispatches
December 09, 2014
Author Eric Schlosser spent six years researching the safety record of the keepers of America rsquo s diminished but still vast nuclear arsenal The most shocking thing he rsquo s learned ldquo That the difference between safety and catastrophe in the United States has come down to a single switch