Monsignor Owen Campion writes that when Judge Amy Coney Barrett, a practicing Catholic, was nominated to the Supreme Court late last summer, little attention was paid to her views, precisely as a Catholic, concerning capital punishment. This oversight was interesting since several
Scott P. Richert, in the All Things New column, encourages Catholics not to take a political Manichaeism approach to politicians’ policies that dissent with Church teaching. Politicians have both good and bad ideas. He writes, “We don’t have to accept the bad
Archbishop Allen H. Vigneron of Detroit will head up a special working group of the U.S. bishops to address issues surrounding the election of a Catholic president and policies that may come about that would be in conflict with Catholic teaching and
OSV Publisher Scott P. Richert writes that while some Catholics might be celebrating seeing one of their own elected to serve as president, the advent of the second Catholic president poses even more challenges than the foreshortened term of the first one.
Monsignor Owen Campion looks at the religious affiliation of the nominees for president and vice president and their position on issues across the board and wonders: Do their churches matter? He writes: “Their views and past experiences are quite different, but taken
Following through on a proposal made at the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon, Pope Francis said there are plans to include a definition of ecological sins in the church's official teaching. "We should be introducing -- we were thinking -- in
In this week's In Focus, Russel Shaw writes, Regardless of his personality or character, his virtue or personal courage, virtually any Catholic priest would rather go to jail than betray a penitent who comes to him for confession. Here's an explanation why.
What does the Church teach about homosexuality? Writer Russell Shaw takes in-depth look at that teaching on same-sex attraction amid the societal changes of the past century.
The birthrate in America has so slowed that we are no longer making enough babies to replace ourselves, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced in a report Jan. 10. And while the fertility rate has been on the decline for
Several years ago, as a result of increasing concerns over terrorist attacks at home and abroad, the Department of Homeland Security began running a major public awareness campaign with the main message built around the statement, “If you see something, say something.”