Rules of engagement for targeted killings have been shrouded in secrecy. According to this legal expert, we still need more transparency. David Cole is no...
Pro-life
Read nuanced perspectives on life issues, including support for families, social justice, reproductive ethics, and all the ways Catholics nurture life.
It would be easy to dismiss the struggle to reconcile a work life with a family life as universal. In some ways, however, this is a uniquely American problem:...
Parenting can be a costly, time-consuming endeavor. Can the church help make American workplaces more family-friendly? Brookes Ebetsch took only a long weekend...
Care for all human life begins with protecting our planet. When Cardinal Joseph Bernardin proposed a “consistent ethic of life” 30 years ago, he argued that to...
Guest editorial Visiting from Michigan after overcast hikes in the Berkshires with family, the sun felt good. Daily Mass had been delayed an hour till 9 a.m...
Americans have a high tolerance for violence. Many concur with the death penalty for heinous crimes. Many support military intervention in foreign lands...
We shouldn’t let sensationalized crime become an occasion of sin. I once heard a bishop explain to confirmation candidates what it means to, in the words of...
For Catholic millennials the past decade of war has mostly remained out of sight and out of mind. Caleb is a 22-year-old Navy veteran who headed to boot camp...
The attitudes of young Catholics toward the military conflicts of the last 10 years spring from a complex web of influences that include demographics, church...
The human cost of the war on terror burdens those who fight it. Americans have grown accustomed to the long list of injuries suffered by the veterans of the...
