The U S bishops conference said ldquo justice has prevailed rdquo in its reaction to today rsquo s Supreme Court ruling in favor of Hobby Lobby Stores and Conestoga Wood Specialties ldquo We welcome the Supreme Court rsquo s decision to recognize that Americans can continue to follow their fait

A new development model seeks to turn the power of the market economy to social good.

In a report released June 23 the Associated Press expanded on the corrections it issued on June 20 after America asked an AP media representative to respond to apparent inaccuracies in its reporting on the scandal swirling around the dispostion of deceased residents of a mothers and babies home in

After our June 18 report nbsp on baptismal certificates recorded in Tuam I queried the Associated Press regarding their stories on the Tuam Mothers and Babies Home Today AP issued the following correction Ireland-Children rsquo s Mass Graves storyDUBLIN AP mdash In stories published June 3 and

ldquo Babies born inside the institutions were denied baptism and if they died from the illness and disease rife in such facilities also denied a Christian burial rdquo It is a sentence unattributed to any source which repeats mdash either word for word or in a close approximation mdash in hu

It may have been hard to imagine conditions for Christians in Iraq getting much worse than they already were but two days ago they did Insurgents from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ISIL apparently at the time only lightly armed swept through Mosul Iraq rsquo s second largest city

Immigration worries are back in the headlines after a sudden flurry of media attention to what has been a slowly building humanitarian catastrophe the increasing numbers of unaccompanied minors reaching the U S southern border some as young as 5 and 6 after a perilous crossing through Mexico fro

Each mass shooting seems to highlight something uniquely “off” in American society.

You have probably read with dismay and disgust as I have the story of the bodies of 800 babies cast into a septic tank in Tuam County Galway children who passed away while under the care of the Bon Secours sisters at a ldquo Mother and Baby rdquo home Between 1925 and 1961 the home sheltered

Efforts to professionalize Vatican financial services and oversight of same continued today as Pope Francis dismissed the all-Italian five-member board that oversees the Vatican’s financial watchdog agency, an abrupt move that will give the financial operation more of an English-speaking focus