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A parliamentary committee in Canada recommended the mentally ill and consenting minors should be allowed to choose physician-assisted suicide. (CNS photo/Lawrence Looi, EPA)
Politics & SocietyNews
Philippe Vaillancourt - Catholic News Service
The four-page letter offers a "pastoral reflection" on the challenges the assisted-dying law.
EspañolLa Palabra
Juan Luis Calderón
Juan el Bautista se pregunta en la cárcel si Jesús es el que ha de venir. ¿Es esta duda acaso una tentación?
A firefighter places a wreath at the foot of a tall statue of Mary overlooking the Spanish Steps in Rome Dec. 8, the feast of the Immaculate Conception. Rome's firefighters have observed the tradition every year since 1857. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
FaithDispatches
Gerard O’Connell
The pope appealed to Our Lady to teach people to care for others “without egoistic interests or hypocrisy.”
Politics & SocietyIn All Things
Michael J. Schuck
The camps of the Dakota protest are places of spiritual education, challenge and growth.
Politics & SocietyIn All Things
Teresa Donnellan
“I am very aware that my ethnicity is dying.”
Demonstrators shout and hold signs in front of the White House in Washington Nov. 10 following President-elect Donald Trump's victory in the Nov. 8 election (CNS photo/Kevin Lamarque, Reuters).
Politics & SocietyIn All Things
Francis X. Clooney, S.J.
This “not” is no solution, whether it is hurled against Mr. Trump or against President Obama.
FaithThe Good Word
Elizabeth Kirkland Cahill
Mary shows us qualities to seek in our prayer life: receptivity to the divine word, thoughtful reflection and finally, the subordination of our wills to God’s wisdom.
FaithThe Good Word
Terrance Klein
Confidence in God makes Jesus sinless for us. Hope in humanity, in ourselves, does the same for Mary.
Faith
Randy Young
Can changes to religious education reduce the exodus of young adult Catholics?
Politics & SocietyIn All Things
Nick Genovese
By the time I talked to my parents about the election of Donald J. Trump, thousands of strangers had already read what I wanted to say.
FaithNews
Cindy Wooden - Catholic News Service
Pope Francis said the "richest experience" of the church operating in a way that is not strictly "top down" came from the two meetings of the Synod of Bishops on the family.
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A mourner pauses Dec. 5 at a makeshift memorial near the scene of a fatal warehouse fire in Oakland, Calif. The Dec. 2 blaze claimed the lives of at least 33 people. (CNS photo/Stephen Lam, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyNews
Catholic News Service
As of Dec. 6, the death toll was 36 and officials said that no additional bodies have been recovered.
Students at St. Joseph Academy in Brownsville, Texas, check their smartphones during lunch May 3. (CNS photo/Tyler Orsburn)
Politics & SocietyNews
Mark Pattison - Catholic News Service
The study reported 78 percent of parents believe they are good media and technology role models for their children.
Politics & SocietyNews
Patrick Downes - Catholic News Service
These are the opening words of the front-page editorial of The Catholic Herald published four days after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor.
Politics & SocietyIn All Things
Raymond A. Schroth, S.J.
Since my birthday, I have prayed that someone would rescue the country I love from chaos and division.
FaithDispatches
Michael J. O’Loughlin
A new statement is seemingly at odds with Pope Francis’ famous “Who am I to judge?” response when asked about gay priests in 2013.
Photograph taken from a Japanese plane during the torpedo attack on ships moored on both sides of Ford Island shortly after the beginning of the Pearl Harbor attack. (Photo from Wikimedia Commons)
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From the archives.
FaithIn All Things
Sean Salai
'The Exercises are geared toward making a decision: a life choice or a deepening of a choice already made.'