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

I spoke of the responsibility to protect at the international level in the preceding post The sorry tale of Father Donald Maguire S J recounted in today s NY Times depicts a profound failure of RtP at a smaller scale albeit one no less devastating to the victims described here What else can

Commentators have been comparing the current Libyan campaign with Bush 2003 in Iraq hoping to launch the following viral conceit liberals Democrats are judging Obama by different standards because the multilateral justifications for use force in the Libya air campaign are equivalent to the argumen

As the pope appealed for a halt to the violence in Libya U S bishops issued a tentative endorsement of the Obama administration s use of force in the North African state in order to to protect civilians in Libya from their own government calling on the administration to stay focused on this lim

Ending child labor establishing the right to organize fighting for a just wage 100 years after the Triangle Shirtwaist fire claimed the lives of 146 people in New York rsquo s Greenwich Village from a global perspective a familiar litany of critical challenges persist in the experiences of modern

It s unfortunate that in the midst of an extremely busy international news day and during a week of important breaking news World Water Day that s today March 22 nbsp is likely to get lost in the media shuffle If you can break away from the news out of Libya and Japan long enough though clean

Taking a position that does not endear him to the larger American Jewish community is not something unknown to Rabbi Michael Lerner founding editor of Tikkun He s used to provoking the status quo and the heat that can generate He s not used to having his home and family threatened however becau