Our apologies good friendsfor the fracture of good order the burning of paperinstead of children the angering of the orderliesin the front parlor of the charnel houseWe could not so help us God do otherwiseFor we are sick at heart our heartsgive us no rest for thinking of the Land of Burning Childr

In their ongoing campaign to make a recent editorial from America completely irrelevant thanks USCCB the bishops have issued another caution on the upcoming budget debtates Also see Circle Drawn Around Social Services in U S Budget Bishops Call on Senate to Protect Poor and Vulnerable P

It s proved difficult to get another Catholic as president into the White House but it seems we are locking down the position of House Chaplain Eleven years ago after some controversial missteps Chicago s Father Dan Coughlin became the 59th chaplain of the House of Representatives and the fir

Editorial misadventure of the century award lt This story was corrected in the seventh paragraph to say commandos were prepared to capture bin Laden alive not Obama gt U S commandos knew bin Laden likely would die By Mark Hosenball ndash Mon May 2 11 47 pm ET WASHINGTON Reuters ndash U

Responding to reports of the death of Osama bin Laden Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi the Vatican spokesman released a brief written statement Osama bin Laden as we all know bore the most serious responsibility for spreading divisions and hatred among populations causing the deaths of innume

There is enough of the childlike idealist left in me to wonder what my grand gesture might be.

Illinois Supreme Court Justice and and former interim chairwoman of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops National Review Board Anne Burke commenting on the wrenching Philadelphia story asks some hard questions today about the U S bishops and the church s continuing crisis It appears

The cage match between the bishops and theologians emerging out of the U S bishops Doctrine Committee s treatment of Fordham Professor Sister Beth Johnson grew more crowded this week The Catholic Theological Society of America has already gone on the record with its critique of the committee s cri

Wondering if there is still such a thing as a labor priest in America MSW at Distinctly Catholic managed to find at least one Now that s how a fella invocates a labor meeting

If you ve been wondering how badly the sex abuse crisis has hurt the bishops ability to speak on any moral ethical challenges in modern civic life listen to the rhetorical bombs being dropped in New Hampshire I know a state that doesn t exactly spring to the fore when contemplating overheated pol