CRISTIADA: Blessed Miguel Pro: Jesuit Priest and Martyr (Part I)
Editor's note: This is the first part in a series of columns by Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted that celebrated of the holy Year for Priests....
First Amendment, not about Pill, but Bill of Rights
That’s the view of two legal scholars on religious liberty issues as they observe what they see as an orchestrated campaign against the First...
What do we mean by religious liberty?
RELIGIOUS LIBERTY FAQ
Religious liberty is the first liberty granted to us by God and protected in the First Amendment to our Constitution. It includes...
Charles W. Colson, R.I.P.
Back in the days when Chuck Colson was willing to run over his grandmother for Richard Nixon, I would have happily done the same...
Why we are suing the government
Responding to editors' requests for a regular sampling of current commentary from around the Catholic press, here is an editorial titled "Why we are...
Strike the POLST: What you need to know about end-of-life care
Your grandpa is dying and the family wants you to serve as his health care decision maker. Feeling hesitant, you watch his arrival at...
Failure in civil discourse leads to breathlessness of spirit
America’s got a weight problem. It’s only getting worse.
Today more than a third of U.S. adults are considered obese, according to studies from the...
Veterans create beauty for others in spite of pain, loss
Recently I was invited to attend the Phoenix VA Health Care System Arts Festival to honor and display the artwork of veterans.
Since so many...
Too busy to pray? Finding time for God brings peace
You may have heard the clever observation that people nowadays have become human “doings” rather than human beings. Multi-tasking, packed calendars and smart phones...
Not my will, but yours be done: Marriage, faith and NFP
We weren’t always on board with Natural Family Planning — it seemed a little pie-in-the-sky at first. As we went through marriage preparation some 10 years ago, we questioned whether this was a reliable method for spacing pregnancies. Sure it’s Church teaching, but is it realistic? We needed proof that the science was sound and that the moral arguments made sense.