The death toll from the Haitian catastrophe is now estimated at a staggering 200,000-almost as many as were killed after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami-with...
U.S. Catholic Blog
What with the holidays and my month of traveling to various marriage celebrations (the third will be this weekend), I am have fallen a bit behind in the U.S...
Bishops John Wester of Salt Lake City, Utah, and Howard Hubbard of Albany, New York, announced a campaign by the bishops to urge Congress to pass comprehensive...
It's too bad every bit of religious idiocy that comes out of Pat Robertson's mouth gets a headline, his Haiti remarks being an egregious case in point...
For many years a former co-worker, a huge Mac fan, harangued us about the evil machinations of Microsoft and its march toward world domination. We never paid...
There's an interesting debate about religion and health care insurance reform that has nothing to do with abortion, sort of. A small town NY paper is...
By now, the news of the devastating earthquake in Haiti has reached most Americans. While it is a natural disaster, unrelated to the kind of social sin that...
Yesterday marked the eighth anniversary of the opening of the prison at Guantanamo Bay, and we are quickly approaching the deadline Obama set when he signed...
Last week I lost one of my best friends: my cat. It's taken me a while to write this post, but I know that so many people can relate. In fact, 2009 saw two...
One of the favorite punching bags of those who don't like post-conciliar liturgy is the music. Most recent is this throwaway from Michael Sean Winters on...