Tag: United States

It’s hard to think of a better greeting than having someone you just met tell you they have been praying for you. I have spent the past few days at a Catholic media conference in Baltimore in the United States, and on the first night, joined a table of other conference participants at the bar.

More than 1,500 people filled St Patrick’s Cathedral in New York on 8 December to witness the formal end of the diocesan phase of the sainthood cause for Dorothy Day. Following official protocol established by the Vatican Congregation for Saints’ Causes, Cardinal Timothy Dolan stamped a hot wax seal onto red ribbon binding the final […]

This has been a discouraging year. And yes, I mean 2021. There was a short spell toward the end of 2020 where I kept thinking how wonderful it was that, despite the president's years of open incitement, there was no violence during the election.

As demonstrated by the popularity of his long-running TV series The West Wing, Aaron Sorkin has a knack for making politics interesting. Nearly a decade-and-a-half...

Pope Francis tackled several issues in his new encyclical, but the section devoted to ending capital punishment was particularly cheered by U.S. Catholics who oppose the death penalty.

Amid pandemics of COVID-19 and racism, the US has lost its vocation of helping says archbishop.

A team from Sydney Catholic Schools have hit the Big Apple to showcase some of their big initiatives to some of the world’s leading...

U.S. bishops joined Pope Francis in expressing sadness after seeing photos of the lifeless bodies of a migrant father and his daughter who drowned...

By John Mulderig In 2008, Oliver Stone, a director not always associated with calm and impartial reflections on recent history, helmed a biopic of George...