It will strike astute readers as unsurprising (and dispiriting) that today's critical questions surrounding gender and race were even more urgent for radical reformers throughout the 1800s.
Distinctly Catholic: No deep shift in public opinion has been more oppositional to Catholic social teaching in my lifetime than the diminishment of the idea that there are public goods that the public should seek to meet.
Grace on the Margins: Pope Francis' failure to see God fully alive and incarnated through the work and ministry of women feels like a betrayal by a man who otherwise sees sacrament everywhere.
Distinctly Catholic: No deep shift in public opinion has been more oppositional to Catholic social teaching in my lifetime than the diminishment of the idea that there are public goods that the public should seek to meet.
Bishop Barry C. Knestout of Richmond Feb. 17 announced the establishment of the diocese's Independent Reconciliation Program, which allows victim-survivors of clergy sexual abuse to receive monetary payment from the diocese.
Barraged by hundreds of sex-abuse lawsuits, the Boy Scouts of America filed for bankruptcy protection Feb. 18 in hopes of working out a potentially mammoth victim compensation plan that will allow the 110-year-old organization to carry on.
Distinctly Catholic: No deep shift in public opinion has been more oppositional to Catholic social teaching in my lifetime than the diminishment of the idea that there are public goods that the public should seek to meet.
Michael Sean Winters rounds up political news and commentary: The problems with Bloomberg; Sanders' vote-turnout myth; Querida Amazonia through the lens of Vatican II; homosexuality and genetics.
Italian Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu, prefect of the Congregation for Saints' Causes, denied allegations that money earmarked for helping the poor was used to invest in a London property deal.
Simply Spirit: There is much good news for our world in Querida Amazonia. But much is lacking, for Amazonian Catholics and also for Catholics like me, who long to return to the practice of the early church.
Commentary: At our parish, as at most, women are busy getting things done. Yet Catholic women cannot serve as ordained ministers, as either deacons or priests. History teaches us that this was not always the case.
In 20th-century Brazil, with the world's largest Catholic population, "the Catholic Church lost about 1% of its followers per decade," notes one expert. "From the 1990s on, it started to shrink about 1% per year."
Though 500 years have passed since the Protestant Reformation began in the eastern German town of Wittenberg, traditional and conservative Catholics find themselves eyeing the German church with concern once again.
Amid a shrinking Catholic Church in Germany, participants in the first session of synodal way meetings brought up questions about sexual morality, the ordination of women, and compulsory celibacy.
Faith Seeking Understanding: A true sense of interconnectedness suggests that one cannot merely select a single ethical issue in isolation as if it were unrelated to all others.
Widespread confusion about a recent change to the so-called "public charge" law that limits immigrants' use of government benefit programs will have a chilling effect on people, including those who are not covered by the ruling, according to staff at Cabrini Immigrant Services of NYC.
Faith Seeking Understanding: A true sense of interconnectedness suggests that one cannot merely select a single ethical issue in isolation as if it were unrelated to all others.
Commentary: Raúl Hernández and Homero Gómez, who were killed within a week of each other, advocated for the survival of monarch butterflies and the woods they migrate to every year in Michoacán state.
It will strike astute readers as unsurprising (and dispiriting) that today's critical questions surrounding gender and race were even more urgent for radical reformers throughout the 1800s.
Book review: Samuel L. Perry conducted lots of interviews, which make up the most interesting part of this work; we get to hear from real humans who've been using pornography and who are wrestling with feelings of guilt and sin because of it.
Distinctly Catholic: No deep shift in public opinion has been more oppositional to Catholic social teaching in my lifetime than the diminishment of the idea that there are public goods that the public should seek to meet.
Grace on the Margins: Pope Francis' failure to see God fully alive and incarnated through the work and ministry of women feels like a betrayal by a man who otherwise sees sacrament everywhere.
Commentary: At our parish, as at most, women are busy getting things done. Yet Catholic women cannot serve as ordained ministers, as either deacons or priests. History teaches us that this was not always the case.
It will strike astute readers as unsurprising (and dispiriting) that today's critical questions surrounding gender and race were even more urgent for radical reformers throughout the 1800s.
Book review: Samuel L. Perry conducted lots of interviews, which make up the most interesting part of this work; we get to hear from real humans who've been using pornography and who are wrestling with feelings of guilt and sin because of it.
I have heard remarks about sisters' "easy" lives: job and retirement security, just having to pray, free summers and vacations, no responsibilities for children or finances. Here's a reality check.
Thailand's entire Catholic community is less than 1% of the population of more than 68 million. But in Bangkok, Ursuline sisters run an all-girls K-12 Catholic school that is thriving.
