The Our Sunday Visitor Editorial Board consists of Father Patrick Briscoe, O.P., Gretchen R. Crowe, Matthew Kirby, Scott P. Richert and York Young.
This week’s editorial draws on the disturbing circumstances of assisted suicide. Last summer, an older couple from Maine killed themselves by swallowing sleeping pills. The couple was in good health at the time of the suicide. In the letter accompanying their obituary,
The season of Advent exists to slow us down, to give us the opportunity to prepare to receive Christ on Christmas Day and to celebrate his coming well into January. To this end, we offer the following six suggestions as potential ways
A recent Pew Research Center study shows that American adults are balking at the idea of commitment, and our families, the basic cells of society, are suffering as a result. Could the same be true of American Catholics when it comes to
Democratic presidential candidate and former vice-president Joe Biden was denied holy Communion by a pastor of a South Carolina church earlier this month, and people can’t stop talking about it. The media, Church leaders, politicians — everyone had an opinion, and not
Dear U.S. bishops, as laypeople, we are committed to living out our baptismal call to work in cooperation with you to bring Christ to all people. Yet the evidence shows that we, as a Church, are failing to answer that call. In
New numbers from the Pew Research Center continue to outline a bleak future for believers. The rise in the religiously unaffiliated — the “nones” — continues and now has climbed to 26 percent. To put it into absolute numerical terms, the number
It’s far too early to be weighing in on the 2020 presidential election. After all, we still have more than a year of madness to go before we cast ballots next fall. But ignoring Beto O’Rourke’s comments about revoking the tax exemption
How far would a person go to follow the truth? This is the story of Blessed John Henry Newman — soon to be saint — who will be canonized by Pope Francis at the Vatican on Oct. 13. And though he died
Two respected sources — USA Today and the Associated Press — recently released two articles sharing stories about the Catholic Church and sexual abuse by clergy, both which subtly suggest that the Church is uniquely self-serving. While state legislatures and the media
The topic was one that could easily have led to a breakdown in civility and dialogue: how the Church ministers to those with same-sex attraction. Rather, what could have been a challenging exchange instead became one rooted in civility — without becoming