Teaching young people what to believe rather than teaching them how to think about life and to arrive at the conclusions themselves usually has the reverse of the intended effect, argues Stephen Adubato.
A year after its release, the pastoral letter on nuclear disarmament by Santa Fe Archbishop John Wester needs to be implemented in parishes and dioceses, says Claire Schaeffer-Duffy.
The case of Jesuit Fr. Marko Rupnik shows the immense structural and cultural change needed to deal with abuse in the church. Even more profound change is needed when it comes to abuse of women, both lay and religious.
Polarization and a lack of political will have prevented the U.S. from responding to the bishops' moral case for immigration reform, says J. Kevin Appleby.
When Pope Benedict XVI retired in 2013, the church had no rules for what a retired pope's role would be or even what he would be called. Now that Benedict is dead, the church needs to set those protocols.
