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Voters wait to cast ballots at the Michelle and Barack Obama Sports Complex on Election Day, Nov. 5, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
In the language of Catholic social teaching, we might say that voters doubt whether the political system in which they participate sustains the common good.
Protestors stand outside Parliament as British lawmakers debate an assisted dying law in London on Nov. 29, 2024. (OSV News photo/Mina Kim, Reuters)
A proposed assisted-suicide law in Britain does not serve compassion. Instead it presents an illusion of final autonomy.
“Joe Biden said one thing and did the opposite. A father’s love meant more to the president than keeping his word.”
The possibility of a “fourth order” of deaconess in the Catholic Church has become part of the conversation around women deacons. But is it the right response?

“For God is my witness, how I long for all of you with the affection of Christ Jesus” (Phil 1:8).

Quebec provincial flags are displayed outside a building across the street from the Cathedral-Basilica of Notre-Dame de Quebec in Quebec City Oct. 5, 2017. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)
Quebec has played host to a number of cults and alternative religions over the years, from the Ant Hill Kids, the cruelly abused followers of Roch Thériault to the U.F.O. believers of the Raelian Church.
A Reflection for Friday of the First Week of Advent, by Kevin Christopher Robles
Anti-euthanasia protesters demonstrate outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London in July 2017.  (CNS photo/Neil Hall, Reuters)
U.K. faith leaders oppose the assisted dying bill: “We believe that a truly compassionate response to the end of life lies in the provision of high-quality palliative care services to all who need them.”
A look at bygone shopping malls should stand as a warning not to let parishes be taken for granted.
Despite the popularity of pilgrimages to the National Shrine of Our Lady of Champion, located in Wisconsin, the apparition was not officially approved for worship until 2023.