Advocates and supporters both make compelling arguments on capital punishment, but neither, in my judgment, make convincing ones. But this is not a concession to either side.
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Readings for Oct. 4, 2026, Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
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AI may be a daily (increasingly hourly) encapsulation of human knowledge and understanding but that understanding sometimes swings on the hinges of a trending zeitgeist, or because of a day’s …
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The case for standing against the death penalty as a Catholic.
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One family discovers Archbishop Fulton Sheen’s meatloaf recipe.
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Inspired by the zeal of the venerable Fulton Sheen, a man who lived life to the fullest
by Ely Seguraby Ely SeguraI wonder where I’ve been all this time, as I didn’t know Archbishop Fulton Sheen until relatively recently. It wasn’t until I arrived in Chicago in 2019 that his name …
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I was curious about how the surrogacy industry approaches abortion, so I started researching various surrogacy agencies. With surrogacy, I noticed that abortion seems to happen when the baby — …
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This month our journey through the origins of Catholicism in the 50 states takes us into the central part of the nation, and to Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas.
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Steinem certainly seemed a textbook example of an “iconic trailblazer,” but it’s worth considering whether Steinem, who was comfortable tracing the causality of patriarchal oppressions, pondered cause-and-effect when it came …
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Readings for Sep. 6, 2026, Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time
