WASHINGTON (CNS) — Abortion-related questions – and Americans’ responses to them – were front and center in the new American Values Survey issued Oct. 27 by the Washington-based Public Religion Research Institute. A majority of Catholics surveyed opposed the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion in the United States, including […]
Pope Francis answers questions from journalists aboard his flight from Bratislava, Slovakia, to Rome Sept. 15. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) ABOARD THE PAPAL FLIGHT FROM SLOVAKIA (CNS) — The debate about denying Communion to politicians who support abortion must be handled in a pastoral way, not by public condemnations that seek to “excommunicate” Catholics who are […]
St. Paul, in his first letter to the Corinthians writes, “When you meet in one place, then, it is not to eat the Lord’s supper, for in eating, each one goes ahead with his own supper, and one goes hungry while another gets drunk. … Do you show contempt for the Church of God and […]
If you follow my thoughts regularly, you will have noticed that I rarely mention the names of partisan political figures. I do not and will not tell anyone for whom to vote. What makes me an expert? I have enough of a job to decide my own vote. I believe that people are smart enough […]
A few years ago, an article was published in Time magazine by Christopher Hale, who at the time was the executive director at Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good and the cofounder of Millennial. The title of the article was “Jesus’ Radical Easter Politics.” The full article is still available online at time.com/4271474/jesus-radical-easterpolitics/. Certainly, […]
