This story has no moral, only a great joy for Mrs. Toole, and a great sadness.
The Editors
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Why we need a eucharistic revival
The danger we face as a church is not so much hostility toward the church and its sacraments, but apathy.
Posted inEditorials, Politics & Society
The Editors: Roe v. Wade was a legal and moral travesty. Its end can bring true justice for women and the unborn.
What is most needed in the public debate on abortion is an honest moral reckoning with the two goods that are in tension when a woman faces a pregnancy she feels she cannot continue.
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Biden promised to let in 100,000 Ukrainian refugees. But the administration isn’t prepared to meet that goal.
President Biden has an opportunity in this crisis. The American people want to help Ukrainians threatened by Vladimir Putin’s vicious war.
Posted inEditorials, Politics & Society
Like the disciples, we search for Easter hope in the wake of Good Friday suffering
The promise of eternal life must lead to greater forgiveness and reconciliation, not passivity in the face of injustice. Such reconciliation can come about only when judgment is left in the hands of God.
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The key to a post-pandemic ‘new normal’? Solidarity.
As the world begins to emerge from the most recent surge of the Covid-19 pandemic, how do we return to normal? And what should normal mean?
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Catholic leaders need to start listening to those who have left religion behind
Have the “nones” consciously rejected religion, or have religious institutions failed to involve them and respond to their needs? The only way to find out is by asking.
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The January 6 Insurrection Is Still a Crisis for American Democracy
The United States must be capable of holding to account those who abandon deliberative self-governance for a politics based on exploiting outrage and resentment.
Posted inEditorials, Politics & Society
Facebook is threatening the common good
Facebook’s business model, built on monetizing human attention while outsourcing human judgment to algorithms, is a uniquely comprehensive and dangerous abdication of responsibility.
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The Editors: Reverence for the Eucharist transcends politics
The disagreements we have in the Catholic Church in the United States around the Eucharist are largely about discipline, not doctrine.