Human beings matter to our common life regardless of whether they are seen as independent and productive members of society.
Family Life
Posted inFaith, GoodNews
A young mother delayed chemotherapy to save her unborn child. Now Pope Francis is advancing her cause for sainthood.
Maria Cristina Cella Mocellin continued with the pregnancy and opted for treatment that would not jeopardize the life of her child, Riccardo, who was born in 1994.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Kirstin Valdez Quade’s debut novel explores grace and tension across five generations of a New Mexico Catholic family
In ‘The Five Wounds,’ Kirstin Valdez Quade depicts a family in which each member embodies human weaknesses yet remains worthy of love. Each finds they are stronger together than any of them is alone.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
The Assumption of Mary brought me peace after my mother’s death
I am told that at the last moment, my mother sat up, looked towards heaven and fell back to her pillow. I chose to believe Mary came to her, took her and is with her still.
Posted inFaith, Speeches
When’s the last time you called grandma? Pope Francis’ homily for the World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly
How do we see our grandparents and elderly persons? When was the last time we visited or telephoned an elderly person in order to show our closeness and to benefit from what they have to tell us?
Posted inPolitics & Society, The Moral Economy
Pope Francis agrees: Equal pay for women is long (long) overdue
For modern interpreters of Catholic social teaching, there is little question that women deserve equal pay. It has not always been so.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
Three years after the 2018 ‘summer of shame,’ what do American Catholics think about the sex abuse crisis?
America asked the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University to survey Catholics nationwide about their understanding of the sexual abuse crisis, its emotional impact and how it has affected their faith.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Bishop Stowe: Essential workers sacrificed their safety during the pandemic. Now Congress must pass stronger labor protections.
“Essential” workers have returned to “normal,” confronting the low wages, poor-to-no benefits—including no paid sick time or company-sponsored health insurance—they faced before the crisis.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Supreme Court rules unanimously for Catholic agency in gay rights and foster care dispute
The Supreme Court ruled that the city of Philadelphia violated the Constitution by limiting its relationship with a Catholic foster care agency over the group’s refusal to certify same-sex couples as foster parents.
Posted inFaith, Speeches
Pope Francis: Pray constantly — but don’t lose touch with reality
“A prayer that is alien from life is not healthy. A prayer that alienates itself from the concreteness of life becomes spiritualism, or worse, ritualism.”