The Catholic Church spent millions in a losing effort to get Kansas voters to strip abortion rights from that state's constitution. The voters overwhelmingly choose not to do so. How should the church move forward?
NCR Connections: The Catholic Church in the U.S. has been used and manipulated by the era's most unconscionable con artist. But there is an alternative model to being captive of far-right political operatives.
A non-profit that stands against all forms of aggressive violence hosted a event with an unorthodox range of programming that explicitly invoked Cardinal Joseph Bernardin's "seamless garment" articulation of a consistent ethic of life.
Since Cardinal Joseph Bernardin introduced the "seamless garment" approach to life issues 35 years ago, the notion has been both divisive and formative for the church, according to speakers at a Dec. 11 panel in New York.
On an American Bar Association panel, Chicago cardinal praises Pope Francis' decision, announced hours earlier, to revise church teaching to forbid the use of the death penalty.
NCR interview: As the U.S. hierarchy meets this week, San Diego's bishop says part of him wants "to scotch the whole agenda" and talk about "How do we help our nation at this moment?"
Rebecca Bratten Weiss believes the same colleagues who gathered "evidence" for a LifeSiteNews article targeting her also contributed to the loss of Steubenville adjunct contract.
