WILMINGTON — While hundreds of students say goodbye to their schools this time of year, some faculty and staff members are doing the same. One of the longest-tenured employees in Catholic education is stepping away after 45 years at...
Torture was back in the news in February, as if we needed the gruesome reminder. "60 Minutes" ran a graphic piece on the torture conducted against its own citizens by the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad.
Obsessive record keeping...
For the Catholic Church, torture has a human face. In fact, it has many faces, each of which are addressed by the church's social teaching on torture.
Years ago, I met Sister Dianna Ortiz, an Ursuline sister and U.S. citizen....
Do you possess a worldview? If so, what is it?
The German word "Weltanschauung" means worldview. On its importance, Wilhelm Dilthey (1833-1911), a professor at the University of Berlin, wrote:
"Human beings search for coherence of their lives. They desire a...
DAVENPORT, Iowa -- A senior high picture of Mollie Tibbetts, the 20-year-old college student slain while jogging in her Iowa hometown three years ago, remains pinned to the bulletin board of Angie Gritsch, the former youth minister at Tibbetts'...
VATICAN CITY -- The new series of laws and provisions set out in the revised section on crimes and penalties in the Code of Canon Law will help the Catholic Church in its efforts at safeguarding, said two canon...
Aoife McGurk, an eighth-grader at Christ the Teacher Catholic School in Glasgow, was the national semifinalist for her grade in the 30th annual Zaner-Bloser National Handwriting Contest.She was one of 20 students recognized from more than 70,000 participants in...
VATICAN CITY -- German Cardinal Reinhard Marx of Munich and Freising, 67, has submitted his resignation to Pope Francis, saying that bishops must begin to accept responsibility for the institutional failures of the church in handling the clerical sexual...
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — You could say Cardinal Justin Rigali has had an altar seat to Catholic Church history.
From his youth in Los Angeles to assisting at the Second Vatican Council to a stint in Madagascar to serving four popes,...
WASHINGTON — We’ll always have Homer Simpson with us. The animated bumbler was designed to be the antithesis to the got-it-all-under-control father types like Cliff Huxtable of “The Cosby Show.”
And with “The Simpsons” having been renewed for a 33rd...