The U S bishops were more than pleased with today s unanimous Supreme Court ruling in the Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v EEOC In a groundbreaking decision that had been anxiously anticipated by religious bodies across the country the court held that a ministerial excepti

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was the only dissenter standing in today s Supreme Court 8-1 decision to toss out a 1996 Louisiana quintuple life sentence Juan Smith had been convicted for two separate home invasions that resulted in multiple homicides The first now voided conviction led t

Is the problem of poverty or at least covering poverty coming back in style Decades of not-so-benign neglect has allowed poverty to molder in America rsquo s cultural basement and the bad news on poverty in America has been unremitting for years now The nation currently endures the highest rate

It should come as no surprise least of all to his campaign staff that Rick Santorum elevated to contender in the GOP race is now getting a level of scrutiny previously reserved for and let s see if I get the order right Gingrich Paul sorta Cain Perry and Bachman Now taking his turn as a

No ticker-tape parade will mark the end of this war.

Chicago s Cardinal George came out swinging Wed in a local throwdown between a Catholic parish and the organizers of the upcoming Gay Pride parade in June 2012 Asked by a local television news reporter to comment on the complaint of the pastor of a parish on the parade route that parishioners woul

Trinity Wall Street one of NY s largest landlords has been described as a real estate company with an altar The church and the OWS movement evicted from the public space at Zuccotti Park have become embroiled in a fight over some unoccupied space owned by Trinity near Wall Street that shows n

Czech President Vaclav Havel is being remembered as a revolutionary and an artist an accidental political leader during a period of rapid change He is also being remembered by some as a spiritual seeker who understood that man and a healthy social order do not live by the bread of democracy alone

According to a CNS story I overlooked that was posted earlier this week Mercy Sister Margaret McBride has been restored to Catholic in good standing status Sister McBride s automatic excommunication was publicly noted by Phoenix Bishop Thomas Olmsted because of her role in approving an abortion

The good news of course for America is that U S troops are returning home and the costly adventure in Iraq drawing to a close According to the timetable endorsed by Iraq and the United States virtually all U S troops should be on their way home by the end of December The bad news What is to