Commentaries
Sanger, Serra and a deadly double standard
The founder of Planned Parenthood and the saint who built the California missions aren't getting the same historical treatment, and the consequences are ultimately fatal, writes Gina Christian.
‘Hamilton’ tells how to save our flawed America
The big Broadway hit airing in this chaotic summer offers three ways Americans can preserve this country and help it live up to its ideals of equality and justice, writes Father Eric Banecker.
We’re all called to conversion — especially our parishes
Parishes exist in a new reality, not of the past, and that requires a change in mentality on the part of clergy and laity, writes Oblate Father Thomas Dailey.
How Catholic organizations are weathering the pandemic
Parishes, schools and Catholic Charities need your support -- as does your diocesan newspaper, which tells the Catholic story honestly and fully, writes Greg Erlandson.
Religious neutrality, the heart of separation of church and state
The Constitution isn't mean to push religion off into a corner, but to let us make up our own minds, writes John Garvey.
Our vanishing children
The eradication of Uighur children from China by force should remind us of the decline of children in the U.S. by choice, and all that it portends, writes Elise Italiano Ureneck.
Freedom in the face of mandates for masks
A view of freedom that focuses only on one's personal freedom leads to self-imprisonment, the opposite of being free, writes Father Eugene Hemrick. The pandemic will be conquered only by thoughtful people with a moral conscience.
End the tragedy of the American Indian Reservation
Writer Richard May takes a painful look at the deep poverty in which Native Americans live in the reservation system. He points to the church's role in lifting up the first Americans.
Power of prayer revealed after sentencing of abusive ex-priest
Michael McDonnell watched the former priest Francis Trauger sentenced to prison last week and found release from years of pain, trusting in God's mercy with the aid of other faithful supporters.
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