James Dearie

College roundup: Ministers, students generally like their campus ministries; Jesuit Fr. James Martin faces resistance at another university; Higher ed's business model needs updating, trustees say

College roundup: Catholic University of America is accepting students affected by Puerto Rico hurricanes; mumps cases on D.C. campuses; St. Mary's in San Antonio gets $1.5 million gift.

Catholic thinking is moving toward an urgent call for nuclear disarmament. That move will be highlighted as Pope Francis gathers Nobel Peace Prize winners Nov. 10-11 at the Vatican.

After a presidential election campaign promising sweeping changes in foreign policy, little has changed in substantive policy of the United States when it comes to matters of war and peace.

College roundup: Love Saxa vote delayed; Trump administration exception taken up; Allan-Michael Meads' case going his way; Jesuit-educated Congress members encouraged to vote for "Dreamers"

College roundup: Georgetown group opposing same-sex marriage challenged; St. Xavier students, admin at odds over chapel; Mount St. Mary's interim president becomes permanent.

College roundup: Loyola University New Orleans' program enables students to earn degrees in both physics, engineering; Students stage walkout at Boston College over racism incidents

College roundup: Over 56 percent of Americans trust police, according to St. Leo University Polling Institute; Sisters of Saint Ann gift $800,000 for indigenous peoples' counseling; Celebrating Sukkot

UPDATED: Longtime anti-nuclear activists are "thrilled" about the honor for the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, saying it points to the strength of the grassroots.

College roundup: Villanova assistant prof is member of team whose founders received Nobel for physics; Four Catholic schools among top 50 green colleges; Angela Davis to speak at Gonzaga

College roundup: Sally Yates, fired by Trump, comes to Georgetown Law; Creighton hosts a Social Reconciliation Conference; $1 million gift to Marquette's engineering college.

The U.N. treaty, which has the Vatican among its parties, needs the signature and ratification of 50 countries to become the first legally binding treaty prohibiting nuclear weapons.

College roundup: Phil Donahue and wife Marlo Thomas host benefit for Notre Dame/St. Mary's LGBT scholarships; University of St. Francis and University of St. Thomas School of Law join forces.

Lindy Lou Isonhood served on a jury that sentenced a man to death in 1994. A new film follows her attempts to reconnect with the other jurors and come to terms with her part in the decision. 

Eleven percent of the world's population, Some 815 million people go hungry every day, according to a new report by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

For some, Pope Francis' Sept. 9 announcement, about decentralizing the Vatican's authority over translations of liturgical texts, capped a story that spans more than 50 years: the story of the "liturgy wars."

For the first time in history, a majority of Britons report having no religion, according to data from the British Social Attitudes Survey released early this week.