A statement from Colorado’s bishops will likely contribute to vaccine misinformation among Catholics, Sam Sawyer, S.J., writes. And its individualistic and libertarian notion of conscience ignores our obligations to the most vulnerable.
Sam Sawyer, S.J.
Sam Sawyer, S.J., is the editor in chief of America Media.
Posted inFaith, Ideas
The pastoral questions raised (but not answered) in The Pillar’s exposé of a USCCB official
Is it appropriate for a Catholic media outlet to take steps to de-anonymize data in order to publicly reveal the sins of another?
Posted inFaith, Short Take
Catholics are talking past each other in the Biden-Communion debate
Accusations and implications of hypocrisy have been easy to find on all sides of this controversy.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
No one can win the Communion wars over abortion
Even in the exceedingly unlikely event that every bishop miraculously agreed on how to approach the question of Communion and abortion, it still would not resolve the political question of abortion in favor of the Catholic position.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
How not to talk about vaccines: Some bishops are choosing the culture war over the common good
Statements by some U.S. bishops on the new Johnson & Johnson vaccine for Covid-19 are proving to be a cautionary tale about confusing Catholics on what is morally permissible.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Joe Biden’s missed opportunity on abortion
By rescinding the Mexico City Policy, the president did serious damage to his own goal of unifying the country.
Posted inNews Analysis, Politics & Society
Republicans use ‘unconstitutional’ in bad faith — and it’s dangerous for the pro-life movement.
The Republican Party has steadily devalued the meaning of “unconstitutional” in its defense of Donald Trump, writes Sam Sawyer, S.J., undermining the best legal argument of the pro-life movement.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
The U.S. bishops need a better public response to the McCarrick Report
The bishops have failed to find a public way to communicate to American Catholics that they are taking this report seriously and are ready to make changes in response to it.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
The McCarrick Report confirms it: Clericalism powered the sex abuse crisis.
The failures detailed in the McCarrick report are not just tragic accidents but the predictable outcome of the incentives and attitudes that have shaped the hierarchy of the Catholic Church.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Talking to Jesus about voting, and listening for freedom rather than fear
Those who are telling Catholics they can vote only one way are not just distorting theology but also wounding people spiritually and pastorally.