Commentaries

Morality is a cost of doing business

Firms have an obligation to pay a wage to workers for the means to support a family, argues Steve Kent. This in an age when corporate profits are at their highest in 85 years and wages at their lowest in 65 years.

A step closer to our eternal home

Everyone yearns to depart from this world from home, writes Moises Sandaoval, even if it is only a humble hut, and to that full measure of acceptance we hope to find in heaven.

God has a vocation for you, for the benefit of all

You can do something that aligns your life with God's will for you, writes Jesuit Father William Byron. The integration of religious faith and your daily responsibilities will bring balance. Just let it happen.

A defining day in life and in death

What surprises columnist Effie Caldarola about life, along with its brevity, is its constant change. She advises that when praying we pay attention -- to God's movement and our response.

A boiling point?

This October marks two years since Superstorm Sandy swept up the East Coast from the Caribbean killing nearly 300 people in seven countries and costing more than $68 billion.

Thank you for not sharing

For people who post every thought and image of their lives on the Internet, Karen Osborne has a message of only 101 characters: It is OK to keep your photos and ideas to yourself. Not everything needs to be shared with the world.

Abbey Fest started with a vision for building beauty ever new

Abbey Faith and Music Festival’s director, Mark Griswold, shares how the event was born and the collective efforts it took behind the scenes to make the event a success.

Get to know Catholic scouting, the largest youth ministry

The nation's oldest youth movement for character development and values-based leadership training for Catholic boys and girls has many activities in the Philadelphia Archdiocese, writes the archdiocesan scout chaplain, Father David Friel.

Get the go-ahead from Congress before another war

The lesson of Vietnam is that presidents should not begin wars unilaterally and then dare Congress to pull the plug on them afterward, writes John Garvey. President Obama should seek permission from Congress for this war in Iraq and Syria. And Congress should give it to him.

A changed church, and an exciting one

Today's Catholic Church in America is different in at least four ways from when Father Eugene Hemrick was ordained a priest decades ago. The changes reflect difficulties, but also newness and hope, he writes.