‘Hope is an active verb. You don’t have hope if you just stand on the sidelines.’
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How should pro-life Catholics who voted for Joe Biden approach the next four years?
Many members of the Catholic community who voted for Biden did so to promote racial, economic and environmental justice—not to undermine human life.
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This Jesuit leadership program is answering Pope Francis’ call for a ‘missionary church’
“The church is in the middle of a seismic change as it moves to a more synodal and discerning approach under the leadership of Pope Francis.”
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Bishop Flores evangelizes on Twitter. Now he is in charge of doctrine for the U.S. bishops.
The Most Rev. Daniel Flores, Bishop of Brownsville, Tex., since December 2009, was elected head of the Committee on Doctrine of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops on Nov. 16.
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Interview: Jim Wahlberg talks recovery, filmmaking and prayer
A chance encounter with a priest placed Jim Wahlberg on the road to recovery and healing for his entire family.
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George Weigel: Religious freedom is a fundamental issue for Catholic voters
“We Catholics are not in the battle for religious freedom for sectarian purposes,” George Weigel says. “We are in this for everyone.”
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Bishop McElroy: Abortion is a pre-eminent issue for Catholics. But not the only one.
“The assertion that abortion is ‘the’ pre-eminent issue in this political campaign for Catholics is itself a political statement, not a doctrinal one,” Bishop McElroy says.
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Some Catholics took glee in Trump’s Covid diagnosis. Do they need to go to confession?
More than a few people struggled with uncharitable feelings about the president’s illness. How should Christians deal with schadenfreude?
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Bishop Barron: Catholic Twitter could learn a lot from St. Thomas Aquinas
Bishop Robert Barron raises concerns about the way that Catholics conduct themselves on social media and gives some suggestions for how they might better embody Christ online.
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‘We are seduced by temporal power’: Gloria Purvis on racism, pro-life politics and the lure of the devil
‘No political party is perfect. I keep saying that no matter who’s in the White House come Nov. 3, Jesus Christ is still on the throne.’