Catholic Church

  • Travel Bans. The Treasury Department dropped the threat of a $34,000 fine against five Alliance of Baptists churches for allegedly violating the U.S.
  • Rose Marie Berger 3-01-2007

    A new wave of Catholic women answers the call to ordination priesthood - an act of ecclesial disobedience.

    A Catholic university strives to make hunger for justice part of the curriculum.

    Tobias Winright 9-01-2006
    The authors connect the dots between Dorothy Day, Peter Maurin, and those who influenced them.
    Judy Coode 8-01-2006
    The Jesuit Volunteer Corps celebrates 50 years of changing lives through service.
    Lucy Fuchs 8-01-2006

    As a Catholic voter, I avidly read the articles about the Catholic vote (“Who Owns the ‘Catholic Vote’?” by Maurice Timothy Reidy, and “A Thorn in Both Their Sides,&rd

    Jeff Carr 7-01-2006
    'Remember you were once foreigners...'
    David Batstone 7-01-2006
    The archbishop is making global warming a personal challenge.
    Rose Marie Berger 7-01-2006

    Olive Branch. In April, 120 former Israel Defense Force soldiers and Palestinian militants publicly launched “Combatants for Peace,” a partnership of former enem

    Roughly 40 percent of Catholics are reliable Republicans, and 40 percent are reliable Democrats. The rest could go either way. That makes Catholics the ultimate swing voters.

    E.J. Dionne Jr. 6-01-2006

    If the church causes discomfort only to one political party when both are in need of repentance, it is not being the church.

    Marie Dennis 3-01-2005

    Challenges to the church in the global South.

    Heidi Schlumpf 3-01-2005

    Sex abuse scandal, priest shortages, celibacy, ordaining women: The issues roiling the Catholic Church offer challenges - and hope? - for the future.

    Richard Rohr 3-01-2005

    The vatican's management problem.

    Catholic reform movement Call To Action - a national 25,000-member group of laity, religious, and clergy-is challenging U.S.

    Jim Forest 1-01-2005

    Book Review: Dorothy Day: Portaits by Those Who Knew Her (Orbis Books: 2003).

    Duane Shank 1-01-2005

    The common good is one of the ultimate moral values.

    Joe Nangle 6-01-2004
    Has the Catholic Church learned anything?
    In the diocese of Rapid City,

    In the diocese of Rapid City, South Dakota, a group of Catholic priests decided to take action on behalf of both the victims and perpetrators of sexual abuse in the church.