Bishop Barron may be correct that the church has become intellectually weaker, but the way to truth is to continue inviting the voices of those who have been marginalized in the past.
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This battle over sex education isn’t being led by white conservatives—but by Muslim parents
In Montgomery County, Md., Muslim parents have been protesting a sex-ed curriculum they say is insensitive to religious belief. Is this local battle a warning sign for Democrats nationally?
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Don’t believe the headlines: a Nebraska teen didn’t go to jail for having an abortion
In the year following Dobbs, accurate reporting on any story even remotely tangential to abortion is not to be expected.
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The charter school model has not-so-hidden dangers for Catholic education
Oklahoma has approved public funding for what would be the nation’s first Catholic charter school. What could be the trade-offs in terms of autonomy and religious freedom?
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A new strategy for failing prisons: hiring former inmates
A prison warden in Mississippi hired nearly a dozen released model inmates to work as chaplains, counselors and teachers. Other prisons can follow suit—and Christian ministries can help.
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Synodality played a leading role at World Youth Day. Can we keep it going in our church?
By revisiting the various moments of grace from World Youth Day, we might identify some ways we still need to walk together if we are to make effective the pope’s call for a church that is “for all.”
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In the Trump indictments, something more than democracy is at stake: the truth itself.
Christians can play a special role in the renewal of our politics. Because we know that the truth is not only real, but a person.
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Activists are calling it Hot Labor Summer. Catholics should welcome it.
Catholic social teaching is clear on the best tool to promote a just wage: organized labor.
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Remembering a priest who put Pope Francis and the Good Samaritan’s economics into action
Whether we think “they should get jobs” or “the government should take care of them,” too often we regard the poor dispassionately. The story of the good Samaritan is a better place to start.
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Catholics: You don’t have to choose between ‘traditional family’ and ‘social justice’ goals
Falling marriage rates across the globe threaten vulnerable women and children. The Catholic Church can help if we put aside political idolatry and work as different members of the same body of Christ.