Parish "Walking with Moms in Need" groups help women who are facing difficulties with pregnancy or parenting, but critics say the program is mere window dressing.
The Catholic Church spent millions in a losing effort to get Kansas voters to strip abortion rights from that state's constitution. The voters overwhelmingly choose not to do so. How should the church move forward?
At the Napa Institute's 12th annual summer conference, held July 27-31, speakers bemoaned the wider culture as hostile to authentic Catholicism, but celebrated the Supreme Court's recent overturning of Roe v. Wade.
I have never doubted the right to life of the fetus. But I now see that also at stake in matters of law and abortion are women's full moral agency and their right to bodily integrity.
Scripture for Life: For the two-thirds of the globe's population living in poverty, with many impoverished people living in "the land of plenty," today's Gospel offers a word of hope.
Vatican officials' responses to the Dobbs case primarily emphasize that opposition to abortion is only one facet of the Catholic Church's pro-life stance.
Commentary: In light of the vision laid out by Pope Francis, the U.S. Catholic community must take a firm, public stance against the recent anti-life Supreme Court decision in West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency.
Michael Sean Winters: No one wants a Supreme Court with its finger to the wind, but the current conservative majority seems to enjoy thumbing its nose at the American people.
Michael Sean Winters rounds up political news and commentary: Michael Gerson is passionate without being tendentious; why we need to overcome Trump fatigue; $50,000 to meet Cardinal Pell, $20,000 to meet Cardinal Sarah.
