Embattled Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi marked his 75th birthday yesterday a milestone that makes all those stories nbsp about him even more bizarre but Public Radio International notes that the Catholic Church in Italy is in no mood to celebrate Listen to the report here exploring h

A tongue-in-cheek guide for journalists on the Catholic beat offers a critique of papal media coverage in Britain s leading Catholic newspaper the Catholic Herald If in doubt be vague and waffly about the purpose of any protests ndash especially if there doesn rsquo t appear to be one Those

One of the more interesting aspects of the recent GOP presidential debates has been the astounding exhortation of extreme individualism the notion that every person is in it for him or herself and that government should not provide any sort of safety net or assistance to those in need there i

The Washington Post reports on the recently freed Americans who were being held in an Iranian prison accused of spying during a hiking trip when they accidentally crossed into Iranian territory Cardinal Theodore McCarrick the retired archbishop of Washington DC played a role in the talks Bef

As young people in the US increasingly reject formal religious traditions they are increasingly charting their own course for rituals that once took place inside a house of worship The Washington Post reports on a growing phenomenon of couples choosing friends or family to officiate wedding ceremo

The BBC reports on the phenomeon of the swiftly growing Christian churches in China It is impossible to say how many Christians there are in China today but no-one denies the numbers are exploding The government says 25 million 18 million Protestants and six million Catholics Independent estima

The BBC reports on the phenomeon of the swiftly growing Christian churches in China It is impossible to say how many Christians there are in China today but no-one denies the numbers are exploding The government says 25 million 18 million Protestants and six million Catholics Independent estima

NPR profiles Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta a Washington veteran who has served in Congress and who was most recently head of the CIA Panetta cites his Catholic faith as something that helps to inform his life-and-death decisions For the past two years Leon Panetta was at the center of the U

It seems hard to believe but it was only a couple months ago that celebrity Donald Trump was flirting with running for the GOP nomination for president when he was thoroughly humiliated by President Obama at the White House Correspondent s Dinner ldquo For example ndash no seriously ndash rec

The great Protestant theologian Karl Barth is purported to have said A preacher needs a newspaper in one hand and a Bible inthe other As someone who dabbles in both news and theology I take Barth s point to be that for Christians neither realm should exist without the other the world should be