Ever give someone a ride home from church after Mass? If you didn’t stop to check their paperwork first, you might have been committing a crime. At...
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In the current issue I reviewed some of the threats to the remaining “uncontacted” people in South America (“Leave no trace:...
On Sunday, I’ll hopefully check off another item on my list of resolutions for 2011 by running another half marathon. I’ve only run one before, and that was...
Immigration advocates have only small victories these days, even under the supposedly immigrant-friendly Obama administration. For us here in Chicago, we...
After making an initial bid last month of $50 million to buy the Crystal Cathedral, the Diocese of Orange, Calif. is apparently now getting into a bidding war...
No one does satire better than The Onion, and I've always especially liked their religion "reporting," most recently their July 21 "God...
How can the church remain relevant to youth and secular society? Kevin Considine suggests that Catholics worry more about creating true disciples than the...
Youth violence is a threat to the lives of God’s children. So why haven’t we heard from the bishops on it? By guest blogger Kevin Considine The...
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and Catholic Relief Services have issued an urgent appeal to bishops, pastors, and parishioners to gather aid...
Catholic News Service has begun a series on the new Mass translations coming November 27 to a parish near you. Today's story offers a bit of wishful...