Commentaries
Children’s deaths are the high cost of Middle-East war
Columnist Steve Kent is incensed by the back-and-forth violence in Gaza in which innocents suffer and die. Obscene cease-fires that allow time to reload, not seek to peace, are the height of hypocrisy.
Benedictine sisters come to the rescue for celiac sufferers
Maureen Pratt tells the tale of the nuns who experimented and came up with a gluten-free altar bread, approved by the U.S. bishops, so people with celiac disease could receive holy Communion.
A midsummer day’s prayer
Jesuit Father William Byron invites readers to recall all the memories of summers past, while they're making new memories, and to pray a prayer of gratitude with him.
Child migrants: Refuge denied or compassion delivered?
A solution to the crisis of unaccompanied minors doesn’t have to be an either/or, writes Amy Hill of the Pa. Catholic Conference. The U.S. can both respond to this humanitarian crisis and respect the rule of law.
Time for Dad to grow up
In their Marriage Matters column, Deacon Paul and Helen McBlain view the matter of a husband and father who puts televised sports ahead of spending time with his family as a crisis point in the couple’s marriage.
Another great leap for mankind is long overdue
People are killing each other all over the world, and in America, 45 years after mankind placed its first step on the moon. What if the same resources and effort could be put to work with the same intensity for a greater leap of peace on earth?
How priests can minister to people of same-sex attraction
Father Joseph Quindlen and other priests of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia attended the recent Courage International conference and learned how to be ministers of mercy in the "field hospital" that is the Catholic Church.
A notable name on a ‘dirty’ list
A women's group calls the Little Sisters of the Poor "dirty" for opposing contraception. John Garvey warns we are going down a dangerous road when those who do not share one narrow view of the world are deemed enemies of the people.
Supreme Court has final word, and that irks some
The Supremes -- the jurists, not the singers -- are finding nothing but heartache as controversy swirls during their summer recess, writes columnist Stephen Kent.
Crisis of children at border is a challenge to love
We have an opportunity to show our love, not our indifference, to some of the 50,000 children who have been stopped at the U.S. southern border, says Father Gus Puleo, an archdiocesan pastor in Norristown.