When I became the first woman CEO of Catholic Relief Services (CRS) in 2011, it was clear how important women were to this great organization. You only had to look around our headquarters in Baltimore, or travel to our offices around the
Most Americans, 62 percent, believe abortion is a “complex issue,” according to a new poll about American attitudes toward abortion released last week by the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI). The best example of this complexity may be that 52 percent of
You don’t have to look far or listen hard to hear someone decrying the state of Western civilization. In “The First Society: The Sacrament of Matrimony and the Restoration of the Social Order” (Emmaus Road, $22.95), Scott Hahn presents a plan for
It would probably be a pretty safe bet that Msgr. John Romaniello is the only Catholic Relief Services executive to get a profile in Popular Mechanics magazine — and a sure bet that he was the only one to show up on
Several times a year Deacon Bert Bliss, 69, pauses from his duties as a permanent deacon in the Archdiocese of St. Paul-Minneapolis to become a hermit. In a cabin-for-one, he prays, rests and walks in nature with the Lord, who reassures him
“Even though I’m serving a prison sentence of 150 years, I’ve never felt freer,” said J.D. Langston, an inmate at Cimarron Correctional Facility in Cushing, Oklahoma. His freedom is knowing God. No walls, rules or restraints can keep him from God.
Recently, walking in the woods with my 6-year-old daughter, I was amazed at how fluently she could speak about endangered animals. She chattered away about the last white rhino that died a few weeks ago. She knew about passenger pigeons who were
The Vatican’s pre-synodal gathering of young people was yet another event in preparation for this fall’s 15th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, which will discuss the theme “Young People, the Faith and Vocational Discernment.” But the March 19-25 meeting
The Resurrection is arguably the central tenet of Christianity. It’s what’s most important. Jesus died, and he rose again. Pretty simple. Pretty straightforward. Pretty easy to understand (if not to digest). Or that’s what I thought before I embarked on a Lenten
As nearly 100 men marched on Aug. 11 through the campus of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, the flickering tiki torches illuminated not only a newly confident movement committed to white supremacy, who chanted “You will not replace us,” and “Jews