Had their disagreements precluded a meeting, the fertile common ground that the pope and the president share on values like economic justice, health care and workers' rights would lie fallow.
AP | NICOLE WINFIELD | Posted 07.07.2009 | Business
VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI called Tuesday for a new world financial order guided by ethics and the search for the common good, denouncing ...
The New York Times | Posted 07.02.2009 | Politics
The Vatican is quietly conducting two sweeping investigations of American nuns, a development that has startled and dismayed nuns who fear they are th...
AP | Posted 07.01.2009 | World
VATICAN CITY — The Vatican has announced the retirement of a Brazilian archbishop who caused a major stir when he declared that those involved i...
AMERICA blog | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics
Big news from Maine. On the plus side, the campaign to save Maine's marriage law has been launched -- and they've got a kick-ass campaign manager lead...
AP | ARIEL DAVID | Posted 06.17.2009 | World
VATICAN CITY — Priest ordinations planned by an ultraconservative group won't be legitimate even though Pope Benedict XVI has lifted the excommu...
Daniel Cubias | Posted 06.16.2009 | Politics
Among my numerous flaws is the fact that I'm not very charitable. Yes, I give money to worthy causes, but I'm stingy with my time. My wife does volunt...
AP | NICOLE WINFIELD | Posted 06.16.2009 | World
VATICAN CITY — The Vatican's top envoy for China says the time has come for the Holy See to get tough with Beijing and not compromise over relig...
AP | MONIKA SCISLOWSKA and NICOLE WINFIELD | Posted 06.12.2009 | World
WARSAW, Poland — To him, she was "My Dear Dusia" and he signed his letters "Br" _ short for brother. She was one of a handful of people by his ...
Blaise Zerega | Posted 06.09.2009 | Politics
It was the Catholic Church that stepped forward to successfully challenge anti-miscegenation law. How much longer before the law of the land applies to all its citizens, gay and straight alike?
Daniel Cubias | Posted 06.06.2009 | Living
I've mentioned before that Hispanics are now the number-one ethnic minority in America. On a related note, I'm sure you've heard that salsa is more po...
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.30.2009 | Politics
Many, perhaps the majority of blacks, can be won to back same sex marriage as a paramount civil rights issue. Because that's what it is. But picketing President Obama is the absolute wrong way to get them to do that.
AP | SHAWN POGATCHNIK | Posted 05.26.2009 | World
DUBLIN — Ireland's government announced Tuesday it will summon Roman Catholic orders and demand they contribute more funds to the thousands of p...
Independent | Posted 05.26.2009 | World
By Jonathan Brown | The Independent Father Patrick Desbois has spent the past decade piecing together the horrific story of the Nazis' secret death s...
Mike Malloy | Posted 05.21.2009 | Home
What is it with the Catholic Church and children? Why does this blood cult insist on violating the innocence of defenseless kids and then giving those...
Alex Leo | Posted 05.21.2009 | World
How can the church take such an unbending stance on abortion and birth control then subject unwanted children to systematic assault?
Guardian | Posted 05.21.2009 | World
The archbishop of Westminster last night sought to defuse a row over comments he made about child sex abuse in Ireland's Catholic institutions....
Guardian | Posted 05.20.2009 | World
There is no poking or hugging and you cannot send a flower or throw a sheep, but in an attempt to bridge the digital divide between the church and its...
James Rotondi | Posted 05.19.2009 | Politics
The t-shirt slogan,"The Day the Dome Was Tarnished Forever" became holy inspiration for others to engage in crass sloganeering and even violent action.
Terry Cosgrove | Posted 05.18.2009 | Politics
It's almost as old as boy-meets-girl. Yet, it always seems like the first time. Or the original story has never been told before today. I am referri...
The Telegraph | Henry Samuel | Posted 05.18.2009 | World
France's First Lady said that the Church's teachings had left her feeling "profoundly secular". ...
August J. Pollak | Posted 05.18.2009 | Politics
The Catholic League's demands go both ways. To see more of August J. Pollak's cartoon "Some Guy With a Website," check out the archive....
Derek Flood | Posted 05.18.2009 | Entertainment
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William Bradley | Posted 05.15.2009 | Entertainment
The sequel to one of the most controversial movies in recent memory is opening this weekend. And the collective response is a mild "hmm."
Politics Daily | Posted 05.15.2009 | Politics
Though dozens of his brother bishops have said they were "scandalized'' or "in shock and deep distress'' that our pro-choice president will speak and ...
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Chris Korzen | Posted 07.10.2009 | Politics