A lot of folks mouth agape may have been tracking the stock market for the last few days Some are eyeballing employment data looking for an indication that the nation may finally be resetting on more secure economic footing One economic-ish statistic which may have gone unnoticed today was track

The environmental catastrophe in the Gulf following the blow-out and sinking of Deepwater Horizon a BP oil drilling rig off Louisiana has its first representative avian face of disaster Unnamed but tagged number 1 a nbsp northern gannet rescued close to the spot where the Deepwater Horizon impl

Now I wasn t there and it s possible that these quotes from Catholic News Service can be taken out of context but the comments below betray a certain consistency with other recent episcopal responses to the physical and sexual abuse of Catholic children and the media and public reaction to same th

Rarely has the U S Catholic community been so publicly at odds over a social policy matter as the U S bishops and U S women religious communities were in the climax of the health care reform debate in March The bishops applying what can only be described as speculative interpretations of the pl

President Obama amplifying remarks of former Secretaty of State Condolezza Rice during the Bush administration and more recently by Vice President Biden and CENTCOM s General David Petreaus said something out loud that appears radical but is actually rather obvious resolving the long-running Mid

Like many other Catholic publications nbsp America nbsp has nbsp urged the church to step forward with all it knows as quickly as possible if for no other reason than to put an end to this brutal media dissection Surely someone was aware during the past weeks of protests to the contrary that the

We mentioned this protest in the April 12 Signs of the Times A group of Palestinian Christians and supporters march after Palm Sunday Mass from the Church of Nativity to Jerusalem and caught Israeli border police by surprise I think everybody was surprised how far they got past the checkpoint befo

Two tales out of one city Rome leave me wondering if some of the priests who finally get it about the sexual abuse crisis may be found in an order that has endured what can only be described as extraordinary revelations of abuse while some at the Vatican are prepared to continue digging deeper

Father Jim Martin made another emergency spiritual call on Comedy Central as part of his side gig The Colbert Report chaplain This time Jim stopped by to explain a little about Catholic Social Teaching and why Glen Beck probably wouldn t make a good pope Colbert still doesn t seem to get it I do

It was probably too much to hope that our family squabble over the health care reform package nbsp could have been conducted without generating too much acrimony But the current divergence of thinking on health care reform though it may appear little more than a ball of confusion to many lay Catho