It is important that safeguards for due process for those accused of sexual abuse be honored, even as we work toward guaranteeing the safety of all members of the church.
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Giving birth in the US is too dangerous and deadly. Congress has a chance to change that.
Maternal mortality has reached alarming levels in the U.S., especially in the Black community. The Catholic Health Association strongly supports a package of laws to better care for mothers and infants.
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‘Heaven has borders, hell has none’: Debunking the GOP narrative that God wants anti-immigrant legislation
Ron DeSantis has signaled that he will make Florida’s restrictive immigration policies a centerpiece of his presidential campaign. He is ignoring the fact that our nation relies on immigrant labor.
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How neighbors going door-to-door cut crime in a Louisiana city
What did four Shreveport neighborhoods with plunging crime rates have in common? They had Friendship Houses, opened and operated by Community Renewal International.
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ChatGPT is not ‘artificial intelligence.’ It’s theft.
Calling programs like ChatGPT “artificial intelligence” grants them a claim to authorship that is simply untrue.
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Is ChatGPT here to stay in higher education? Not if teachers resist it.
Even writing instructors are being pressured to use ChatGPT, and to allow their students to use it. But if allow such shortcuts in the creative process, we endanger our students’ psychological development.
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Could you explain what the Synod on Synodality is to a 10-year-old? If not, we need to simplify some things.
I’m surprised to find that it’s my confusion about the synodal process that has grown more than my enthusiasm for what is being discussed.
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Jordan Neely’s killing on the New York subway reminds us: Dehumanizing language can be fatal
Two recent tragedies, a death on a New York city subway train and a mass shooting in Texas, show that too many of us follow the temptation to describe others as less than human.
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Sex ed has become another culture war issue for Catholics. Fertility ed might be the answer.
Parents should take a lead in giving their children an accurate picture about sex and reproduction, but too many young adults never learn the basics about fertility.
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When your car causes you to sin: Driving does not encourage us to be our best selves
When we get behind the wheel, it is easy to see other human beings as mere obstacles. We need to acknowledge that driving can distort the moral sense of Catholics and all good people.