Engagement with Catholic schools can help seminarians enter ministry with a clearer sense of the pastoral needs of their flock.
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Trump or Biden? What’s a Catholic voter to do?
American Catholics had seen the problems the church got into in Europe when hierarchy aligned itself with specific rulers or political parties. American Catholics, including most bishops, did not want to go down that road.
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As pressure builds to reopen churches, can local governments keep them closed?
The Trump administration is permitting state and local governments to exert their traditional power to draft and enforce health and safety regulations. This has led to a variety of responses across the country and even within the same state.
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Coronavirus is a physical and spiritual threat
At first blush, this “social distancing” sounds un-Christian, but we need to listen to medical experts.
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Remembering the revolutionary priest and poet, Ernesto Cardenal
Thomas Merton wrote an introduction to a lyrical book of reflections by Cardenal, Vida en Amor: “In a time of conflict, anxiety, war, cruelty, and confusion, the reader may be surprised that this book is a hymn in praise of love, telling us that ‘all things love one another.’”
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Catholic voters ignored by Democrats at their own peril
Democratic candidates tend to focus instead on other voter groups: blacks, Hispanics, LGBTQ people, young people, teachers and women.
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Who knew what about former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick?
As early as 1994, while McCarrick was archbishop of Newark, a woman expressed concerns about McCarrick to the papal nuncio in Washington, Agostino Cacciavillan.
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We need faith, ethics, science and economics to save the planet
As the crisis of climate change attains more urgency, many more people—especially the young—are coming to protest how humans are treating the planet to the detriment of all the living.
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What 10 new cardinals tell us about Pope Francis’ priorities
by making these men cardinals, the pope is handing them megaphones.
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James Martin: A week in Rome with Jesuits, and I saw God at work far beyond the Vatican
Rome for me is a heady place where it’s easy to lose your spiritual bearings.