The Our Sunday Visitor Editorial Board addresses a topic that has been on many people’s minds this Advent season: the recent oral hearing of “Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization,” which may lead to the ...
Catholicism has become everyone’s favorite whipping boy — the faith somehow immune to and undeserving of tolerance.
Earlier this month, the Pew Research Center released the results of a survey that caused quite a commotion in the Catholic community. It said, in short, that more than two-thirds (69%) of those who self-identify ...
It can be a dicey proposition for a curious Catholic to push out into the choppy waters of Church statistics. The further out you venture, the more grim things look; and as you peer toward ...
Our imagination is powerful: Feed it well, and it can spur us to desire the grace to become saints. Feed it fantasies of death and despair, and we should not be surprised at the ...
When we are faced with bad news, we long to categorize it, because if we can put everything into the right box, then (we tell ourselves) we can find an easy solution. If only life ...
There are more pregnancy care centers in the United States today than there are abortuaries. Dozens exists in states that now have only one or two abortion clinics.
For many Catholics, this new wave of reports of widespread clergy abuse felt like opening up a wound that hadn’t fully healed.
In mid-July, on the sixth anniversary of his pastoral visit to the Italian island of Lampedusa — one of the main entry points to Europe for refugees and migrants crossing the Mediterranean from North Africa ...
We must strengthen our relationship with Christ, not just for our own sake, but for the sake of those to whom we are called to reveal him.
