National Catholic Reporter offers a detailed look at an emerging controversy in the Diocese of Oakland involving a national association that offers pastoral support to gay and lesbian Catholics and a bishop rsquo s quest to assess its Catholicity From NCR Following a more than yearlong investigat

The conversion to Catholicism by a once prominent atheist writer is gaining some attention From CNN She went from atheist to Catholic in just over 1 000 words Leah Libresco who rsquo d been a prominent atheist blogger for the religion website Patheos announced on her blog this week that after y

Some breaking news from the Vatican today via Reuters The Vatican has hired an American journalist from the Fox News Network and member of the conservative Catholic group Opus Dei to help improve its relations with the media a senior Church source said on Saturday Greg Burke Fox s Rome-based

A Pew survey examining doubt and belief in God has been making the rounds the past few days with headlines claiming that the generation dubbed ldquo millenials rdquo is fleeing from belief in record numbers Take this example from Talking Point Memo The younger generation is abandoning God in dr

I occasionally hear some complain that they wish Christianity were tougher meaner and more masculine That rsquo s always struck nbsp me as odd but some Christians are acting on that desire From USA Today Finally someone is making a movie that answers an important question Can you love your

Young undocumented immigrants received some much welcomed news from the White House today where President Obama announced changes to federal immigration policy that would grant them work permits and lessen the fear of deportation From the New York Times His policy directive which Latinos and ot

The Vatican is set to control a new internet extension catholic Catholic News Service reports The Vatican is in line to control the new Internet address extension catholic and decide who is allowed to use it The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers a nonprofit corporation tha

I hope my Jesuit friends here at America forgive me but I want to spill some digital ink talking about a group of Benedictines The monks at my alma mater Saint Anselm College a Benedictine institution in New Hampshire are gathering this week to elect a new abbot a process I knew little about b

On Friday I went to a lecture at the Catholic University of America sponsored by the Catholic Common Ground Initiative CCGI that explored the themes of Vatican II focusing on reconciliation and Gaudium et Spes CCGI a friend who serves on the board told me was established to bring together thos

Will President Barack Obama s former pastor Rev Jeremiah Wright and his fiery sermons make an appearance in the 2012 elections just as they had for a bit in 2008 Last week the New York Times reported that a billionaire Republican businessman had approved a plan that would drag Wright back into