During their fall general assembly, the U.S. bishops addressed problems confronting the hierarchy, including persistent tensions in their relations with Rome, continuing fallout from the sex abuse scandal, a rising number of defections from the ...
The Church has always been intensely concerned about holding, preserving and sharing what it believes to be revealed truth about God and the meaning of life. Russell Shaw writes that the reorganization of the Roman ...
Rather than being the text of a single discourse by Jesus, the Beatitudes is a collection of Jesus’ teachings. This is how Jesus Christ said men and women should organize and conduct their lives. There ...
What can pro-life people expect from the Supreme Court’s decision to review a law requiring doctors performing abortions to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital? Russell Shaw writes: “In brief, they can expect a ...
Our Sunday Visitor contributing editor Russell Shaw turns to Saint Thomas Aquinas as he seeks to find answers in the difficulties of impeachment. Shaw writes: “Saint Thomas’s treatment does make it clear that voting either ...
The writings of John Henry Newman, namely “An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine,” are great resources of Catholic apologetics. Newman, a nineteenth century Anglican churchman who converted to Catholicism, will be named a ...
Our Sunday Visitor contributing editor Russell Shaw writes that while there has been much talk lately of an impending schism among U.S. Catholics because of strong disagreements with Pope Francis, any kind of formal schism ...
By contrast with the Supreme Court term that ended last June, which court watchers pronounced comparatively bland, the term that starts in October is shaping up as explosive. Already the court has agreed to rule ...
Russell Shaw, in his ongoing series on the Life of Christ, explores the sensation Jesus created, which can be summarized in this passage from Matthew’s Gospel: “He went around all of Galilee, teaching in their ...
Cardinal William Levada, who died September 26 in Rome, was precise in speech and reserved in demeanor. But beneath that professorial exterior lay a puckish sense of humor. His life was marked by many positions ...
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