A reader asks: “I have made a pledge to purchase a Bible. I want to not only read it but study it intently. Should I purchase a Catholic Bible or the standard classic King James ...
Paul Gavrilyuk gets about four hours of sleep a night. It's a wonder he gets any sleep at all. The Ukraine native and theology professor at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul is working ...
A trip to the grocery store is giving shoppers sticker shock over staples such as a gallon of milk. Imagine the pocketbook pain of buying 250,000 gallons. Southeast Michigan food aid ministries, including food banks and parish-based ...
When Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party began violently vandalizing thousands of Jewish synagogues, hospitals, cemeteries, businesses, homes and schools across the country in 1938, the Church was watching. Pope Pius XI, who died in ...
Assistant editor Ava Lalor shares how a conversation with a priest about the homeless in their community has led her to take seriously how to give alms this Lenten season: “During the season of Lent, ...
Cory Howat, president of #iGiveCatholic, is optimistic that despite setbacks in their household finances they might have because of the ongoing pandemic and now inflation, Catholics will be as generous as ever on the seventh ...
Frank Siller, the CEO of the Tunnel to Towers Foundation, is honoring the victims of 9/11, including his brother, Stephen, a firefighter who died at the World Trade Center, by making a 537-mile walk from ...
In a time of uncertainty, one thing U.S. women religious and others who have been providing food during the COVID-19 pandemic know for sure is that the number of those who need food assistance has ...
Stephen Adubato reflects on the sadness he used to feel as a kid once the presents were unwrapped on Christmas morning, as he mourned the end of the season. He writes, however, “My experience of ...
Phil Westover is a man of standard size, rounded ears and deep voice. But he's a good part Christmas elf. Westover, a 70-year-old member of St. Peter Parish in Newberg, Oregon, spends joyful hours in his ...
Happy Independence Day! In the words of Pope Francis, "A nation can be considered great when it defends liberty as Lincoln did ..." (September 24, 2015, Address to a joint session of Congress)
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Msgr. Owen Campion reflects on the life of Helen Keller. In light of the recent reversal of Roe v. Wade, he asks: “What if? What if her parents, seeing the terrifying result of her illness, had decided that she had no hope for a life of quality?”
The story of Helen Keller and the sanctity of life
Following the news that the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday ruled to overturn Roe v. Wade and give individual state...
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