Msgr. Owen Campion writes in his latest column that respect for human life experienced two serious setbacks as 2020 came to an end, and each occurred in a very unexpected place. In Spain, which is ...
On Jan. 20, Joseph R. Biden Jr. will be sworn in as the 46th president of the United States — the second Catholic in 232 years to attain that office. Two days after President Biden’s ...
Ahead of the Jan. 20 inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden, Monsignor Owen Campion addresses the challenges that the Church will face by having a Catholic in the White House who will work toward policies that ...
Monsignor Owen Campion writes that when Judge Amy Coney Barrett, a practicing Catholic, was nominated to the Supreme Court late last summer, little attention was paid to her views, precisely as a Catholic, concerning capital ...
Scott P. Richert, in the All Things New column, encourages Catholics not to take a political Manichaeism approach to politicians’ policies that dissent with Church teaching. Politicians have both good and bad ideas. He writes, ...
Archbishop Allen H. Vigneron of Detroit will head up a special working group of the U.S. bishops to address issues surrounding the election of a Catholic president and policies that may come about that would ...
OSV Publisher Scott P. Richert writes that while some Catholics might be celebrating seeing one of their own elected to serve as president, the advent of the second Catholic president poses even more challenges than ...
Monsignor Owen Campion looks at the religious affiliation of the nominees for president and vice president and their position on issues across the board and wonders: Do their churches matter? He writes: “Their views and ...
Following through on a proposal made at the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon, Pope Francis said there are plans to include a definition of ecological sins in the church's official teaching. "We should be ...
In this week's In Focus, Russel Shaw writes, Regardless of his personality or character, his virtue or personal courage, virtually any Catholic priest would rather go to jail than betray a penitent who comes to ...