Like any enlisted man or woman, Catholic chaplains have go training, and they don't get special treatment. U.S. Navy chaplain Father David Daigle, a...
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The key to a thriving parish is not so much what goes on inside, says this longtime pastor, but what its members are doing beyond its walls. In his book...
While Catholic moral teaching on medical treatment has been in place for hundreds of years, the last three decades have seen increased development and debate...
Making decisions about end-of-life care can feel emotionally and spiritually overwhelming, especially when the decisions are for someone else. Here are seven...
When it comes to caring for the terminally ill, Catholics sometimes struggle to decide when enough is enough. Last December Tina and Jeff Jankowski were...
In honor of Father Damien’s beatification on October 11, we revisit a story from 2000 about Molokai. The church continues to care for the settlements...
The journey to Kalaupapa, Hawaii has never been easy. The only way to reach the peninsula by land is a three-mile trail that slowly winds its way down the...
In the last few years I have been a friend to an elderly man and helped care for a frail and aging relative who needed daily assistance and biweekly trips for...
The pro-life movement is hardly monolithic, those responding to U.S. Catholic's Reader Survey reveal, and that's a good thing. Activists, nurses...
The Body of Christ is the best medicine for body and soul, regardless of whether we are "worthy" to receive him. "Are you a priest?" There...