Our nation’s culture of violence is out of control. It’s time to pull the trigger on efforts to reduce gun deaths. Sounding Boards are one person’s take...
Pro-life
Read nuanced perspectives on life issues, including support for families, social justice, reproductive ethics, and all the ways Catholics nurture life.
Our country’s drone policy has been operating mostly behind closed doors. According to law professor David Cole, that’s a troubling reality for a program that...
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...
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...
