Your life, my life, every life, is precious. Every life lost during the pandemic is a tragedy. We’ve been hearing this from media talking heads
Today, in the United States of America, on Memorial Day, we honor and remember all the brave men and women who died while fighting to
Is your parish considered “nonessential” in this time of lockdowns and quarantines? How about the liquor stores in your community? If you live in Colorado,
The word socialism is freely tossed around in the public square, especially on social media. Too often, though, it’s either a misnomer for some government
In January, over at the National Schismatic Reporter (as Fr. John Zuhlsdorf calls it, AKA Fishwrap), one of its ace reporters was not happy. He
When I reflect on current conditions and issues in our Church, our culture/country or the world at large, I always try to focus on what
Mitt Romney’s recent vote to convict President Donald Trump following the impeachment trial in the Senate created a huge uproar among politicos, but particularly Republicans,
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, directed by Frank Capra in 1939, is about a young Senator who stands up to corruption. At its heart, the
“Separation of Church and state!” How many of us have heard this noxious axiom over and over again throughout our lives? While history has taught
In 1968, an ecologist named Garrett Hardin wrote an article for Science magazine titled “The Tragedy of the Commons.” A utilitarian and Malthusian, Hardin argued
For the past several decades, the Western world has been increasingly distancing itself from its Christian roots. One of the clearest examples of this is
Researchers are now “coaxing” human stem cells, in the lab, to grow into beings that are similar to a human embryo. There are innumerable questions
Like the rest of my fellow Catholics in the Diocese of Buffalo, New York, my heart has a continual, aching heaviness. In these terrible but
The practices of physician assisted suicide (medical aid in dying) and euthanasia are being increasingly accepted throughout the world. This acceptance is becoming all too
In medicine and in our culture, there is a growing acceptance for what is now being referred to as “medical aid in dying.” The term
This is part of an ongoing discussion on Catholic Stand: Is it a sin for a Catholic with a well-formed conscience to vote for any
This is article was first published five years ago but is even more relevant given America’s current social and political environment. If you’ve got about
The claim that “voting for a Democrat is a mortal sin” is one feature of the 2016 presidential election cycle that’s already repeating itself for
For over a decade now there has been an ever-burgeoning body of discussions and publications making the point that, for a Catholic with a well-formed
Approximately 327 million human beings are living in the U.S. and, glory to God, not one of those people is like the other. Certainly, they
We human beings have always played around with our nature. But there is a point where the playing goes too far. We like to alter
The phenomenon of finding an antihero and making this person a hero is something we as humans are very inclined to do. We find examples
