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...
Pro-life
Read nuanced perspectives on life issues, including support for families, social justice, reproductive ethics, and all the ways Catholics nurture life.
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...
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...
To our modern ears the idea of heresy seems quaint and medieval—involving technical arguments about abstract matters. But I contend that heresy and its cousin...
How violence takes a toll on our kids. As a firefighter and a police officer, Annette Nance-Holt and her ex-husband, Ronald Holt, knew the dangers of the city...
Catholics must focus on the battle for hearts and minds to be successful in the effort to end abortion. The United States will make history this month...
The global fight against HIV and AIDS requires all the means at our disposal. Thirty-three million. Twenty-five million. Eleven million. These numbers are...
Catholics ought to be loud and proud in the fight for women’s rights, argues a young feminist. I still remember the first time I heard a friend utter the...
Last December Bishop Raymond Burke then of the relatively small, mostly rural Diocese of LaCrosse, Wisconsin, made national and international news with a...
