WASHINGTON – According to a recent FBI report, religious groups are not exempt from being targets of hatred.Read More

The New Testament reading that began this Advent season, from Paul’s First Letter to the Thessalonians, was filled with the tension between the “now” and the “not yet” of the two comings of the Messiah – a tension that was evidently an issue for the early church, and ought to be for us.Read More

The moment I uttered the words I knew they sounded silly: “What do you get the girl who has everything?”Read More

“Rise up in splendor. Your light has come.” The words of the prophet Isaiah foretell of the coming of the Messiah. We welcome his coming.Read More

Each year for weeks in advance of it, my Jesuit Volunteer assistant and I go out into the streets with clip boards and sign up jobseekers for the all day job fair we hold on the holiday that commemorates Martin Luther King’s birthday. We hear hard-luck stories, voices of frustration and amazing words of hope...Read More

In this Christmas Eve edition of The Catholic Review – the last of the year – I offer these Christmas-related “Thoughts on our Church,” with sincere gratitude to you, good readers, for tending this weekly column and for your faithful witness and dedicated service to our Church.Read More

WASHINGTON – Although the ultimate fate of health reform legislation in the U.S. Congress remained up in the air as the end of 2009 neared, one thing is certain: With their unequivocal call to keep the legislation abortion-neutral, the U.S. bishops had a strong influence on the debate.Read More

CAMP LEATHERNECK, Afghanistan – On the fourth Sunday of Advent, in a small plywood chapel with two-by-four benches, Father Ulysses L. Ubalde reminded an overflow crowd of military personnel that they, like Mary and her cousin Elizabeth, were vessels of holiness.Read More