The pope’s stance on health care may be hard pill to swallow for opponents of reform. More than 100 million people a year across the world are driven into...
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On March 5, 2009, Sister Carol Keehan, a Daughter of Charity and president of the Catholic Health Association (CHA), which represents more than 600 Catholic...
After the priest and the Levite have passed by an injured traveler, the Samaritan man is moved with compassion, providing first aid and then medical care for...
We should be helping America’s young people really be all that they can be. Despite the grim toll taken in what is becoming a war of attrition in Afghanistan...
Not long after Rich Salazar moved to DeKalb, Illinois from California, he found himself knocking at the door of St. Mary’s Church. The then-college...
Struggling with mental illness? Sister Kathryn James Hermes, author of Surviving Depression: A Catholic Approach (Pauline Books & Media), offers some...
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...
Fast food has meant a slow death for thousands. Why aren't we doing more about it? If you knew of an obvious public safety hazard that contributed to the...
And our politicians need a brain transplant. Universal health care is the most compassionate option we have, argues a Catholic doctor, and it’s the...
In this article from the U.S. Catholic archives, Kevin Clarke explored the state of our U.S. health care in 2004, capturing the effects of a crisis that...
