Distinctly Catholic: The Catholic Church not only teaches that health care is a basic human right but that it is essential to human dignity. Republicans seem content to hide behind the fiction of formal "access."
Irish Columbian Fr. Shay Cullen, 74, received the A.K. Shalom Award for Human Rights May 6 at the Catholic University of Eichstatt-Ingolstadt in Germany.
A small c catholic: Fewer Catholic women religious make it harder and harder for Protestants to run into nuns and get any sense of what they're about.
Three young priests from the Diocese of Peoria rode their bicycles more than 340 miles over five days to bring awareness to religious vocations.
College roundup: Newman University in Wichita plans LGBT support group; California's Thomas Aquinas College to launch East Coast branch; new diversity officer for Loyola New Orleans.
Chicago -- A gay Ugandan who has led the resistance to his country's anti-homosexuality laws, Mugisha addressed American LGBT Catholics and their supporters at a recent symposium.
Young Voices: A recent study from LinkedIn says that millennials switch jobs on average of four times in their first decade out of college. Some might see that as a symptom of the "next-best-thing"-generation. But I don't think it's necessarily a negative phenomenon. To me, it's a manifestation of the admirably desperate search for vocation.
Faith leaders and Baltimore Police Commissioner Kevin Davis recounted the tough times their city faced and the healing role that faith has played at a May 3 panel in Washington.
Chicago -- "The flack has been enormous," since he accepted New Ways Ministry's invitation, the Lexington bishop says, but LGBT Catholics' "valuable expression of mercy" has inspired him.
Retired Archbishop George Niederauer of San Francisco, a longtime English professor and 11-year bishop of Salt Lake City, died May 2 at 80.
He had been living at Nazareth House in San Rafael, California, for several months following a diagnosis of interstitial lung disease.
"Archbishop Niederauer was known for his spiritual leadership, intelligence and wisdom, compassion and humor, and was always focused on his responsibility to live and teach the faith," said San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone in an announcement to the priests of the archdiocese.
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