The U S bishops on April 17 released the results of their annual compliance audit intended to track the U S church rsquo s response to the abuse of children by clergy according to guidelines first established by the 2002 Dallas Charter During the 2014 audit year July 1 2013 ndash June 30 2014

A northwest side native, he was the sixth Cardinal to lead Chicago's 2.3 million Catholics.

It was no surprise that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was convicted on all 30 counts in the Boston Marathon bomber trial on April 8; in an opening statement, his attorneys had conceded his guilt in the April 2013 horror at the finish line. The State of Massachusetts bars the use of capital punishment, but Tsarn

As congressional opponents of the ldquo Lausanne framework rdquo agreement with Iran prepped for Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearings tomorrow proponents of the deal meant to hamstring Iran rsquo s purported nuclear weapons development got some help today from the U S bishops Las Cruces

Massachusetts bishops reject the use of capital punishment.

Chicago journalism legend Robert McClory and Vatican II reporter Robert Blair Kaiser

Congratulations to America editors James Martin S J and Kerry Weber who double-teamed the Christopher Awards today Jim Martin earned his for Jesus A Pilgrimage Harper One Harper Collins Publishers and Kerry Weber won in the same ldquo books for adults rdquo category with Mercy in the City

Netanyahu threw all caution—and hope for a resolution of this 67-year conflict—to the wind.

His campaign appearance in Washington seems to have backfired on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu but when all else fails and you 39 re slipping in the polls who ya gonna call That 39 s right Chuck Norris In what may prove the oddest of political bedfellowing Walker Texas Ranger and D

If for a second Óscar Romero had glanced through the open doors of the chapel, would he have seen the young man taking aim? Would he have been afraid? Would he have been tempted to flee?