Just Catholic

Just Catholic is a Catholic perspective on the news -- especially when the church itself becomes the news -- from Phyllis Zagano. If we talk about religion, we must talk about the way we live it. It’s not only relationship with God, it’s relationship with ourselves and with each other.

A U.S. Border Patrol truck drives along the border fence with Mexico and passes the Cristo Rey Statue on Mount Cristo in Sunland Park, New Mexico, June 18. (CNS/Reuters/Mike Blake)

As US secures its borders from women and 8-year-olds, the Gospel gets blamed

by Phyllis Zagano

Jun 22, 2018

Just Catholic: Frightened, starving, poor people walk, they swim, they ride the seas in all sorts of vessels for a chance at freedom. And this is the pope's fault?

Imagining Catholicism at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

by Phyllis Zagano

May 22, 2018

Just Catholic: It's important to consider the other person's point of view, but if you visit the "Heavenly Bodies" exhibit at the Met, get ready: It's about as "other" as you can get.

On messages and messengers

by Phyllis Zagano

Apr 23, 2018

In this latest apostolic exhortation, the pope clearly describes what is going on in the Catholic Twitterverse and blogosphere: there are people out there whose stock and trade is defamation and slander, who "bear false witness," who lie and who vilify others.

Cloning animals, humans has scandalous implications

by Phyllis Zagano

Mar 22, 2018

Just Catholic: We do not know the implications of cloning, but affluence and indifference are making it more common and more morally suspect.

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As US secures its borders from women and 8-year-olds, the Gospel gets blamed

Imagining Catholicism at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

On messages and messengers

Cloning animals, humans has scandalous implications

Dear Parkland students: This land is your land

Why can 'Catholic' bloggers disrespect the pope?

The church cannot succumb to hurry sickness

We can't forget the poor among us

#MeToo brings to light scope of sexual assault, victims' suffering

Foods laden with sugar, salt and fat spread worldwide

The world is caught in a pandemic of bullying

There goes the neighborhood

'They shoot horses, don't they?'

Is 'The Handmaid's Tale' about today?

Whose Gospel is it anyway?

Who wants to live in the United States?

Fake news, alternative facts, and the information competition

Who's showing whose true colors?

The new and empty calendar

Despite cardinals' challenge, 'Amoris Laetitia' is clear about mercy

Does the United States need anger management?

The election: Who are you betting on?

Has this election cycle lost its moral compass?

Scamming immigrants for fun and profit

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