Distinctly Catholic: The Civiltà article attacked the Manichaean worldview separating people into good and evil camps. Archbishop Charles Chaput's critique of the article exhibits such a worldview.
Guidelines from the Vatican on the bread and wine for Eucharist affirm that completely gluten-free hosts continue to be "invalid matter for the celebration of the Eucharist."
Distinctly Catholic: Benedict XVI tried to assuage fears about its consequences, but his Summorum Pontificum, released 10 years ago today, opened a new battlefront within the church.
Phyllis Zagano, a member of Pope Francis' commission studying the possibility of women deacons, appeared on Canada's Salt+Light Television, speaking about women deacons' history and their potential modern ministry.
USSCB Summer 2017: The U.S. bishops voted June 15 to make the Ad Hoc Committee for Religious Liberty a permanent standing committee.
Approximately 50 percent of Catholics 30 and younger no longer identify with their religion. U.S. bishops discussed the need to reverse that trend and why the 2018 Synod of Bishops on youth and vocations is crucial.
The Peace Pulpit: When people see us filled with love and reaching out in love, making our community a community of love, people begin to understand who God is.
CTSA 2017: Trump's announcement about the climate accord came one week before the Catholic Theological Society of America's annual meeting, which this year focused on ecology.
CTSA 2017: Hailed as a founder of modern comparative theology, Clooney in his remarks emphasized the importance of "looking out into a larger world" from the Catholic tradition.
CTSA 2017: St. Joseph Sr. Anne Clifford had praise for Pope Francis' encyclical on the environment, yet she also raised concerns in her ecofeminist response to Laudato Si'.
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