With just one day to spare, the federal government Jan. 18 narrowly averted another potential shutdown, as Congress overwhelmingly agreed to an early March funding extension -- the third such extension in four months.
Battles over the escalating size of the national budget
We sometimes hear the admonition that we should “forgive and forget.” The implication is that authentic forgiveness of a transgression necessarily implies forgetting the offense. Yet memory is an important part of our moral development. It helps both parties become better people.
Now is the time when people are busy compiling “best of lists” for 2023 and predictions for 2024. Acts of remembering and predicting are rooted in the meaning and effects of time, duration and change on our moral development. In turn, the
With tens of millions of other Americans, Kenneth Craycraft has once again turned his sports-craving attention to the new seasons of the National Football League and NCAA football. But all is not well with his conscience, he writes: “Like last season and
BRUSSELS (OSV News) -- A commission representing the European Union's Catholic bishops has expressed "deep concern" over a draft EU law on the use of embryos, cells and "substances of human origin," warning it could facilitate genetic and gender interference across the
Michael Pakaluk, a professor of ethics and social philosophy at The Catholic University, explains the ongoing news story that centers on the bankruptcy of cryptocurrency exchange FTX and its founder, Sam Bankman-Fried, who lost investors billions of dollars by mismanagement and outright
Publisher Scott P. Richert recounts a previous experience in which he wrote about the murder of an abortionist, only to have a reader tell him that the Chuch should consider the killing to be justified, as it saved the lives us untold
Catholics debate the line between art and explicit content, asking when does entertainment cross into pornography?
OK, this might get a little uncomfortable. And for that, I apologize in advance. But there are uncomfortable things in this world — especially these days — that simply cannot go uncommented on. That’s how I felt when I first read the
Is it a sin to gossip if the story’s true? That’s not breaking the Eighth Commandment, is it? The one that forbids bearing false witness against your neighbor? False witness, bad. OK. But true story … well. Hmm. This seems to have