Thousands of immigrants and their supporters traveled to Washington to rally on the west lawn of the White House for comprehensive immigration reform. They had...
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Since 2004 the U.S. bishops have been working on a pastoral letter about marriage, which they are scheduled to vote on at their November meeting. The National...
Oh, Stephen Colbert, how brilliant you are! Last night the comedian got his audience–a bunch of liberal young adults, I presume–to cheer for the...
The contentious debate around the ethics of embryonic stem cell research took a welcome step toward oblivion on October 8 when Harvard researchers announced...
After the failure of comprehensive immigration legislation in 2006, which the Bush administration had supported, President Bush promised to enforce current law...
"Sister X" has spoken out in the pages of Commonweal regarding the Vatican "visitation" of U.S. women religious. Bravo to Commonweal for...
Forget Biblical literalism, a conservative group is editing the Bible to match their values and is using a Wiki to do so. The Conservative Bible Project is...
Catholic opponents of health care reform seem willing to go to no ends to find some justification in church teaching for opposing it, including some bishops...
Mudslinging has become so common in mainstream media nowadays that we barely notice it, but I'm always astonished at the willingness of some Catholics to...
