In the public sphere, there is often a separation between the act of worship and public life. We are told religion, including worship, is personal. And the act of worship — what we adore — ...
I was at a Sisters of Life convent the other day for a press conference where Cardinal Timothy Dolan reissued a pledge that the Church in New York will help any woman who is pregnant ...
Other than the extreme damage done to victims of clergy abuse and their families, perhaps the biggest fallout from the devastating and seemingly interminable clergy abuse crisis has been a severing of trust between lay ...
Two months before leaders of episcopal conferences worldwide gathered at the Vatican for a ground-breaking summit on clergy sexual abuse, organizers of the event sent letters to the participating bishops encouraging them to meet with ...
This column is being written on the eve of a much-publicized summit meeting of bishops from around the world whom Pope Francis has summoned to Rome to discuss the sex abuse scandal but will appear ...
When the Vatican announced on Feb. 16 that Theodore McCarrick, the disgraced former cardinal-archbishop of Washington, D.C., had been dismissed from the clerical state, the only surprise was that it took so long. (See story ...
In the hospital. That’s where I spent the greater part of a week approaching Lent 2019. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. It was one of those things where I brushed it off, but the ...
In 2014, a study was released by the journal Science that concluded that people would rather subject themselves to physical pain than be left with only their thoughts for company. An online report by Nadia ...
Christians are at risk of falling into a severe trap. Namely, we believe that the Gospel of Jesus Christ is really a matter of being a decent, upright person rather than receiving the gift of ...
Question: Can our pets love us? — Paul VanHoudt, Erie, Colorado Answer: No, our pets cannot love us in any human sense of the word. Love requires freedom and a rational soul. It is clear ...
