Let’s begin to enlist both left and right in service of the vulnerable—using the ideological language they already accept.
Simcha Fisher
Simcha Fisher is a speaker, freelance writer, regular contributor to The Catholic Weekly and author of The Sinner’s Guide to Natural Family Planning. She lives in New Hampshire with her husband and 10 children.
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How to Choose the Right Godparent
The work of choosing and being a godparent can lead to hurt feelings, dashed expectations—and the occasional influx of unexpected grace.
Posted inNews Analysis, Politics & Society
How should Christians respond to the Kavanaugh hearing?
A conversation between Simcha Fisher and Bill McGarvey, two columnists for America. They discuss the Kavanaugh hearing and more via email.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Jesus knew about Cardinal McCarrick
He knew about Uncle Ted, and he knew about everything else we’re about to find out. That is why he came.
Posted inFaith, Features
How the church can help (or hurt) women in abusive marriages
What pastors say to women in abusive relationships can be life-changing
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Suicide and abortion stem from the same lie: that some lives don’t matter.
Choosing death is choosing death, and that choice always comes from within a dark hole.
Posted inLast Take, Politics & Society
The pope and a cardinal show Catholics the right way to call someone out
Righteous call-outs should be patterned after Cardinal O’Malley’s rebuke of Pope Francis on sex abuse.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
It’s O.K. to complain about the demands of faith. But how you vent matters.
Venting is good. Venting is sometimes lifesaving. But it matters where you vent and why.
Posted inFaith, Last Take
The great (and tragic) comedy of going to confession
If you cannot laugh at the ignominy of whispering your wretched little sins through a screen, then when will you laugh?
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
How Lent consoles us—and shows us what it means to be abandoned
Jesus has felt our sorrow, carried our burdens, sweated through our labors, taken our punishment onto himself.