The Dalai Lama jokes with his audience during his July 17 speech at the UIC Pavilion in Chicago (Photo © John Rodriguez, Claretian Publications) I had the...
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UPDATE: The Philadelphia Inquirer is now reporting that Rigali has indeed resigned and, further, that Charles Chaput, the current archbishop of Denver is going...
The U.S. system of holding unauthorized immigrants for deportation is replete with horror stories. Two years ago it was the scandalous care of the infirmed...
UPDATE: A group of Catholic social justice leaders yesterday issued a statement appealing to the White House and Congressional leaders to keep the poor and...
The bad news just keeps coming in: With yesterday's release of the Cloyne report in Ireland, the world has yet another example of episcopal malfeasance...
A few months ago, I flipped through Chicago photographer David Schalliol‘s remarkable photos of the Orange Order’s annual march last year, the same...
Since I last blogged on this issue, three Catholic Charities agencies have sued the state of Illinois for a religious exemption from accepting same-gender...
Migrants Thinking Twice About Going North Over the last few years the number of migrants illegally crossing from Mexico to the U.S. has drastically declined...
A former editor of U.S. Catholic remembers the first lay executive editor of the magazine. The Mister Burns of the title is Robert E. Burns, who, after taking...
While the rhetorical fires raging around the issue of illegal immigration into the United States from Mexico remain fairly well stoked (it is almost another...
