Despite efforts by Beijing to pass quietly through the June anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre the state of human rights in China became a scorching subject on the internet as photos of an exhausted woman and her aborted baby went viral as did suspicions about the recent alleged suic

At the risk of beating a dead horse or a hornet s nest I embark on another adventure in modern statistics with the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life Loyal In All Things readers may recall that back in December 2011 Pew published a report Lobbying for the Faithful that garnered national a

In The Paranoid Style of Church Politics the witty Wimpy Catholic nbsp Max Lindeman reviews some of the recent rhetoric out of the bishops conference and wonders if too many members have been reaching for aluminum miters of late nbsp In 2010 InsideCatholic com director Deal W Hudson asked

Some anniversaries worth noting this week begin of course with Tiananmen Square It s odd to think that these days all Beijing and Washington appear willing to argue about is air pollution but there was a time when we had wider ethical chasms to cross Free trade makes strange bedfellows of us al

Bishop Blaire has issued a clarification of some misunderstandings based on his remarks to me on Tuesday full text of the statement follows below I ve asked his press secretary if he wishes to speak specifically to comments or points made in the interview published here and will update if I hea

In a recent e-mail Notre Dame Law Professor and Mirror of Justice blogger Rick Garnett made some points about the university rsquo s recent lawsuit against the H H S mandate In a post yesterday I referred to Grant Gallicho rsquo s analysis at DotCommonweal about the scope of the religious exempti

The Archdiocese of Washington today joined a rush of Catholic lawsuits around the country this week challenging the Department of Health and Human Services mandate on the inclusion of contraception in health care plans beginning August 2013 In California however Bishop Stephen E Blaire of the Di

Notre Dame has now joined a number of other Catholic institutions in filing suit against a new mandate from the Department of Health and Human Services that may require the inclusion of contraceptive services in health plans beginning in August 2013 at religious institutions such as Notre Dame and o

If you rsquo re a parent of a child on the autism spectrum surely a chronic worry must be your child rsquo s future beginning with that will happen to your child once whatever supports you have been able to cobble together from your local school system time out in the late teens Even young people

Over at the National Catholic Reporter John Allen offers an inside baseball look at exactly what the heck is going on at the Vatican regarding the L C W R clampdown or is it Allen offers a somewhat calming dissection of the behind the scenes jockeying that took place is probably still taking pl