catholicism

If only the Church had responded so fervently to child abuse.

In wake of revelations of racial wedge strategy.

Maine’s investigation into campaign finance reveals so much more…

For the poet Javier Sicilia, a grieving father whose son was murdered by thugs last year, the pope’s visit is historic as well. Yet for him, and for those wounded voices he seeks to amplify, the pontiff’s arrival has less to do with pushing back secularism than with long-overdue attention to the ravages of Mexico’s drug wars.

While the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has denied that there is a national strategy for the Church to fight sex abuse cases more aggressively, even the Church’s staunchest defenders see the pattern. As William Donohue, the pugilistic president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, told the New York Times this week, bishops are going after SNAP because “SNAP is a menace to the Catholic Church.”

A nun and a Catholic OB/GYN talk to RD.

At the end of 2011, in a sign of what’s to come, the U.S. Bishops warned the Obama administration to amend a regulation on contraception in its health care legislation or stand accused of religious discrimination.

Do Italian hackers truly hold the Vatican responsible for events that look place 500 years ago?

Anonymous claims responsiblity for site blackout.

Shockingly, the Catholic League’s Bill Donohue is angry about the Minaj’s Grammy performance; but why did she go with the “Roman Zolanski” bit?