“I believe in an America where… there is no Catholic vote, no anti-Catholic vote,” declared John F. Kennedy. But today some wonder whether U...
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America’s inflated self-image doesn’t reflect our nation’s obvious flaws. When Harry Potter looks at the magical Mirror of Erised, he sees what he wants to...
Want to know more about new state immigration laws? We’ve done the research. In the following states, immigration legislation has been proposed to: ALABAMA –...
During Christianity’s earliest centuries, an era of official persecution of Christians, church and state were not only separate but opposed. Then in the...
We don’t normally publish the feedback from our Reader Surveys online, out of respect for the privacy of respondents (name and city are included in this...
U.S. Catholic readers provide a progress report on Barack Obama’s first term in office. Since Day 1 of his presidency, Barack Obama has had a rocky...
Election Day shouldn’t be a time to leave our faith at home. Religion is the problem,” said a friend at a late summer barbecue. “If we could keep religion out...
With billions in aid on the chopping block, who is looking out for the world’s poor? The first hard numbers emerging out of the famine in Somalia are...
Maryann Cusimano Love knew that it was only a matter of time before terrorists would hit the United States, but it was a dead car battery that kept her out of...
As the debt-ceiling debate stumbles toward resolution, this May 2005 column about the 2006 federal budget shows how little things have changed when it comes to...