Distinctly Catholic: Watching the Nevada debates, it's clear that Democrats need a candidate with vision, someone who will frame the election as a choice between two futures — not simply be "not Trump."
Young Voices: Three encounters at my motherhouse — involving significant differences of opinion — gave me pause and had me reflecting on progressive and inclusive authenticity.
The problem of hair discrimination disproportionately affects black students, and one Catholic school in the Brooklyn Diocese faces a lawsuit over its policies.
Looking to change lives in prison and after release, sisters bring inmates food, underwear, sanitary pads, Bibles and basic health services, along with teaching skills, spiritual coaching and behavioral change.
Distinctly Catholic: Watching the Nevada debates, it's clear that Democrats need a candidate with vision, someone who will frame the election as a choice between two futures — not simply be "not Trump."
One year after Pope Francis called for a summit of Catholic bishops at the Vatican, abuse survivors flocked to the Eternal City on Feb. 20 to report a lack of progress and accountability in the fight against clergy sex abuse.
An attorney for New Orleans' Roman Catholic archdiocese Feb. 20 strongly defended the New Orleans Saints' public-relations help in dealing with the clergy sex abuse crisis, saying the legal effort to unseal hundreds of confidential emails between them is aimed at trying to shame those "who had the audacity" to back the church.
The 12-year process of updating the Code of Canon Law section dealing with crimes and penalties was necessary "to make it more organic and responsive to new situations and problems," Pope Francis said.
One year after Pope Francis called for a summit of Catholic bishops at the Vatican, abuse survivors flocked to the Eternal City on Feb. 20 to report a lack of progress and accountability in the fight against clergy sex abuse.
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."
Schools were shuttered, churches told worshipers to stay away and some mass gatherings were banned as cases of a new virus swelled Feb. 21 in South Korea, the newest front in a widening global outbreak.
We say: The undertaking was daunting from the start and disappointing in some respects at the end; compared to what went before, though, we prefer the new pathway that Pope Francis has opened.
Looking to change lives in prison and after release, sisters bring inmates food, underwear, sanitary pads, Bibles and basic health services, along with teaching skills, spiritual coaching and behavioral change.
The problem of hair discrimination disproportionately affects black students, and one Catholic school in the Brooklyn Diocese faces a lawsuit over its policies.
After months of mounting student pressure, Creighton University announced it will partially divest its half-billion-dollar endowment from fossil fuel companies.
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.
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: Watching the Nevada debates, it's clear that Democrats need a candidate with vision, someone who will frame the election as a choice between two futures — not simply be "not Trump."
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.
Looking to change lives in prison and after release, sisters bring inmates food, underwear, sanitary pads, Bibles and basic health services, along with teaching skills, spiritual coaching and behavioral change.
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.
