You may see a second collection this weekend at your parish to raise money to respond to the famine in Somalia but if you are looking for a way to pitch in before then Catholic News Service put together a handy list of relief agencies which I am posting below The following international aid agenc

Our own Father Jim Martin was on call last night at his other job as chaplain to the Colbert Nation Father Martin tried gamely once again to explain matters spiritual to Colbert but it remains unclear how much is getting through See for yourself below

Catholic Relief Services is launching a special appeal to deal with the escalating famine crisis in the Horn of Africa The agnecy released a press release today that includes a request from U S C C B president and N Y nbsp Archbishop Timothy M Dolan and Bishop Gerald F Kicanas chairman of the

A study released today by the Pew Research Center rsquo s Forum on Religion amp Public Life reports that more than 2 2 billion people nearly a third of the world rsquo s total population live in countries where either government restrictions on religion or ldquo social hostilities involving rel

After declining to recant his very public support for women s ordination Father Roy Bourgeois has been dismissed by the Maryknolls The N Y Times reports that he was notified via a letter signed by the superior general and the general secretary of the Maryknoll order in the United States which sa

Reports out of the Horn of Africa could not be much worse Three new regions of Somalia are officially in famine conditions this is the first such UN declaration of famine in decades Thousands have aleady died and are dying as you read these words refugees fleeing the famine continue to seek aid

The dog days of summer are being accompanied by howls of pain today from investors Decisively contradicting predictions that the end of the tragic-comic debt ceiling ldquo debate rdquo in Washington would lead to a market revival all major U S indexes indeed indexes around the world began a s

The Catholic Health Association has joined the discussion regarding new guidelines issued by the Department of Health and Human Services that require among other uncontroversial preventive service additions new health care plans after August 2012 to include FDA-approved contraception methods and c

Following up on recommendations issued last month by the Institute of Medicine the Department of Health and Human Services issued new guidelines today on mandatory care for women Beginning August 2012 new health insurance plans will be required to include women rsquo s preventive services such as

Rumors of a budget deal scattered about Washington today only to be denied by officials from the Obama administration and Speaker of the House John Boehner rsquo s office mdash just the latest development in the high-stakes ldquo don rsquo t call my bluff rdquo poker game that has transfixed the n