Conscience and Catholic Education: Theology, Administration, and Teaching brings together essays that focus broadly on issues of conscience encountered in the educational field. The essays are uneven but important.
Federal appellate Judge Amy Coney Barrett is emerging as a likely nominee to fill the U.S. Supreme Court seat left vacant by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, reawakening a debate over Barrett's views on law and religion.
Distinctly Catholic: Why is it that poll after poll demonstrates that Catholics and other Christians who attend church more frequently are more likely to be conservative and Republican?
In response to a question echoing recent controversial statements as to whether Catholics can vote for Biden in good conscience, Newark Cardinal Joseph Tobin indicated he was personally more vexed by the prospect of voting for Trump.
The attorney general's admirers cheer his commitment to religious freedom, but critics say that commitment is selective and ideologically driven. The pro-life movement embraces him — yet he reinstated federal executions.
Across the country, priests have used their homilies, bulletins and parish social media to promote Archbishop Viganò, who has been heralded by many right-wing Catholics as leading the resistance to Francis' papacy.
Fr. Frank Pavone enthusiastically supports President Donald Trump's reelection. Some Catholics and pro-lifers see major disconnects between Pavone's embrace of Trump and the church's witness in the public square.
Distinctly Catholic: This train wreck of a phone call with Trump has shown just how sectarian (and partisan) some key staffers at the U.S. bishops' conference have become.
Distinctly Catholic: I would have trouble thinking of another contemporary scholar who is so completely versed in two distinct fields of study that a work like this can succeed as this book does succeed.
