As the region's leaders gather for the Summit of the Americas on April 14-15, some plan to argue for Castro's inclusion — but will any speak up for the Cuban people? Please join us for a discussion among a panel of experts, some of whom recently returned from Cuba.

President Obama attacked Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget as “nothing but thinly veiled Social Darwinism.” That is not surprising. What is surprising is that the chairman of a major committee of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops launched a similar scathing attack against Ryan.

On February 17 the Italian newspaper: "L’Unità" (the official Democratic Party and already former communist newspaper) published an interesting article by the Hon. Stefano Fassina (responsible for the economical department of the Italian Democratic Party), eloquently entitled: "Catholic thinking can help to defeat liberalism." The author calls for a fruitful...

What Pope Benedict XVI said is that in certain circumstances, using a condom would be less bad than not using one.

The Catholic sense of the world as a gift of God's love is the central theme of the pontificate of Benedict XVI.

Pope Benedict XVI's message on the World Day of Peace emphasized the connection between responsibility for the environment and respect for human life.

Today, the storm rages around a deeply erudite lecture delivered Pope Benedict XVI on the topic of "Faith, Reason and the University."