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Pro-life advocate Joe San Pietro participates in a 40 Days for Life vigil near the entrance to a Planned Parenthood center in Smithtown, N.Y., on March 26. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)
Politics & SocietyExplainer
Ellen K. Boegel
The Supreme Court has overruled longstanding precedents before, writes Ellen K. Boegel, but usually to end the confusion or chaos from an ‘erroneous’ decision. Will a majority describe Roe v. Wade that way?
Photo by Vladimir Solomyani on Unsplash
FaithExplainer
Ashley McKinless
I knew who I needed to talk to process this news: my mom, an account who once worked for the Archdiocese of Washington.
Politics & SocietyExplainer
Ellen K. Boegel
Every parent wants happy and healthy children, but unless we literally live on a deserted island, we are “a part of the main” and owe an obligation to our neighbors to protect them as well as ourselves.
FaithExplainer
Eric Sundrup, S.J.
Some background to the kerfuffle over Pope Francis and kissing the papal ring.
FaithExplainer
Jim McDermott
There are elements in the trial of Cardinal Pell that do not easily translate to a U.S. context, including a media blackout and the cardinal’s long history with the issues of sexual abuse and cover-up.
Former Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick of Washington, pictured in 2017. (CNS photo/Bob Roller) 
FaithExplainer
Michael J. O’Loughlin
A sentence of laicization—sometimes referred to colloquially as defrocking—would complete a stunning fall from grace for the former cardinal.