Magazines like America are not really the first draft of history. But from time to time, when the publishing planets align, we break news as well as analyze it.
Thank you, Father Martin, for articulating so eloquently the consistent ethic of life expressed by our Catholic social teaching.
“For many years, I read only the weekly readings at Mass. As I got older, I became a lot more engaged in reading and meditating on what I read.”
The health of U.S. democracy demands attention to its electoral mechanics. Both candidates and voters should prioritize improving elections.
Lay Catholics are ready to lend their expertise, leadership and prayers to heal the wounds inflicted on children and the church by abusers and the leaders who failed to stop them.
Catholic high schools should not be limited to the college-bound. In order to serve all communities, they must also serve students who wish to avoid college debt and to go straight into the workforce.
After the Vatican’s historic summit on the sexual abuse of children, Archbishop Mark Coleridge says “the mission of the church” is at stake.