Health-Care U
If you were to ask the proverbial person on the street what the Catholic Church thinks about health-care reform, the answer would sound pretty much like this: Catholics have serious ...
The Gospel According to Joe Biden
The proverb says that the human being is the only animal that falls into the same trap twice. This old adage was confirmed in spades this past Sunday as Senator ...
Don’t Blame the Bishops
You are unlikely to ever come upon a group called Mohammedans for Polytheism or Environmentalists for Seal Slaughter. A Muslim who espouses a multiplicity of deities has, ipso facto, placed ...
All Church Politics Is Local
In a rare exercise of collective muscle, the U.S. Bishops Committee on Doctrine issued a statement last Friday declaring that two pamphlets published by Professor Daniel Maguire of Marquette University ...
Idle Speculation
The media blitz was triggered by comments from two high-ranking prelates. Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini, the retired archbishop of Milan and a known biblical scholar, gave an interview to the ...
My Genes Made Me Do It
To celebrate Holy Week and Easter, the United Church of Christ (UCC) produced an attention-grabbing television ad highlighting its inclusive policies. Viewers watch an “intolerant” church rejecting–or rather, literally ejecting–a ...
Our Blessing
It’s already been a year since Pope John Paul’s death. It seems only yesterday that we were out standing in Saint Peter’s Square, looking up at the familiar face in ...
Let Catholic Charities Be Catholic
Much fuss is being made over Boston’s Catholic Charities’ refusal to place children with same-sex couples in its adoption services. The political agenda behind the garment-rending and name-calling should have ...
Wanted: Pro-Life Democrats
Late last month, 55 Catholic Democrats from the House of Representatives released what they termed a “historic” Catholic Statement of Principles. In substance the statement seeks to reconcile the support ...