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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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’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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
When it comes to the Sacrament of Confession, Church law trumps that of the state. Regardless of the passage of any governmental legislation, breaking the seal of confession is simply not an option for a ...
Bishops ‘above all’ have the responsibility to help the Church move forward from the clergy abuse crisis.
