The U S bishops this week continued a scorching rhetorical response to the recent H H S decision to maintain a narrow religious exemption for contraception requirements in new health insurance plans but some reporters have noted a small problem with all the outrage Primarily its absence in previ

U S Bishops vow to fight HHS edict as a matter of freedom of conscience and religion they nbsp say it is unconscionable to force citizens to buy contraceptives against their will Statement follows WASHINGTON mdash The Catholic bishops of the United States called ldquo literally unconscionable

In what will probably come as a shock to Catholic supporters of the Obama administration Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced today that H H S apparently intends to stand by a controversial interim position on the wording of a religious exemption for employ

Carolyn Woo takes the reins at Catholic Relief Services.

The U S bishops were more than pleased with today s unanimous Supreme Court ruling in the Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v EEOC In a groundbreaking decision that had been anxiously anticipated by religious bodies across the country the court held that a ministerial excepti

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was the only dissenter standing in today s Supreme Court 8-1 decision to toss out a 1996 Louisiana quintuple life sentence Juan Smith had been convicted for two separate home invasions that resulted in multiple homicides The first now voided conviction led t

Is the problem of poverty or at least covering poverty coming back in style Decades of not-so-benign neglect has allowed poverty to molder in America rsquo s cultural basement and the bad news on poverty in America has been unremitting for years now The nation currently endures the highest rate

It should come as no surprise least of all to his campaign staff that Rick Santorum elevated to contender in the GOP race is now getting a level of scrutiny previously reserved for and let s see if I get the order right Gingrich Paul sorta Cain Perry and Bachman Now taking his turn as a

No ticker-tape parade will mark the end of this war.

Chicago s Cardinal George came out swinging Wed in a local throwdown between a Catholic parish and the organizers of the upcoming Gay Pride parade in June 2012 Asked by a local television news reporter to comment on the complaint of the pastor of a parish on the parade route that parishioners woul