What is really required ... is to address the thought processes and motivations that prompt people to seek abortion as a solution to a personal problem that should not have occurred in the first place. Catholics, and our counterparts in … [Read more...]
Questions Answered
March 5, 2013 by Fr. Brian Mullady, OP
How should we deal with dissenting Catholic politicians? Is there a moral obligation to reverse a vasectomy? Dissenting Politicians Question: Recently many politicians have claimed that though they are Catholic they are in favor of … [Read more...]
A Dialogue with the HHS Mandate
February 19, 2013 by Sean M. Connolly
Editor’s Note: The so-called HHS Mandate, enacted by the United States Department of Health and Human Services in January 2012, has been the subject of growing controversy and pending lawsuits. It requires nearly all private health i … [Read more...]
Making sense of another ambiguous “compromise”
February 19, 2013 by Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, OFM Cap, DD
Bishop's Corner The scholar, Yuval Levin, has stressed that the new HHS mandate proposal, “like the versions that have preceded it, betrays a complete lack of understanding of both religious liberty and religious conscience.” To live w … [Read more...]
Legislation creating ”same-sex” marriage: What’s at stake?
Bishop's Corner
February 9, 2013 by Cardinal Francis George, O.M.I.
Marriage comes to us from nature ... neither Church nor State invented marriage, and neither can change its nature. At the beginning of the New Year, 2013, a law is being proposed in the General Assembly to change the legal definition … [Read more...]
Are doctrine and morals too controversial?
January 2013 Editorial
January 16, 2013 by Fr. Kenneth Baker, SJ
What happens to a parish, and to its parishioners, when the pastor refuses to preach Catholic doctrine and morals on the grounds that they are now “too controversial”? Cardinal Francis George and Cardinal Timothy Dolan are well known fo … [Read more...]
Betrayal or Integrity
July 14, 2012 by Arland K. Nichols
When it comes to protecting the right to life of the most vulnerable human being in our midst, the infant in the womb, there is no “middle ground” or “common ground” to be found. Human dignity must be protected and upheld. Imagine for a … [Read more...]
The HHS Mandate: Is it a Religious Liberty Issue?
April 24, 2012 by Fr. Dylan Schrader
Some Catholics (and others) have couched their objection to the recent HHS mandate in terms of religious liberty. Their focus has been on the unreasonably narrow definition of what constitutes a religious organization, and on the lack of a … [Read more...]
Pro-lifers vs. relativism
Editorial, November 2010
November 1, 2010 by Fr. Kenneth Baker, SJ
The struggle between anti-abortion and pro-abortion groups in recent years, highlighted and brought to a peak in the debate over Obama’s healthcare bill, goes way beyond the issue of abortion and the right to life. The struggle is not just b … [Read more...]
Hope for the salvation of infants who die without baptism
Editorial, August 2010
August 1, 2010 by Fr. Kenneth Baker, SJ
A constant theological problem, at least since the time of Augustine, is the question of the salvation of infants who die without baptism. Many solutions to the problem have been proposed, such as: they are in hell but not seriously … [Read more...]
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