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Pope knows: Protect the poorest by protecting the planet

By Carla Walsh
Poverty is a big problem and it demands a holistic solution. While providing food, housing and employment are obvious priorities, there is much more to lifting people out of poverty. Part of the answer is protecting those at the bottom, so they don’t lose what little they have. On that front, Pope Francis has led […]
9/18/15
Reading Time 3 min

In the pre-papal visit locker room

By Soren Johnson
The riptide of images, soundbites, reports, misreports, clashes and traffic jams is now just hours away. This papal visit is no preseason scrimmage for the Catholic. This is prime time. St. Paul likened the faith to a “race that lies before us” (Heb 12:1), and our pope’s visit will pull some hamstrings, rip calves and […]
9/17/15
Reading Time 3 min

The vagaries of papal popularity

By Russell Shaw
Journalists understandably are fond of conflict – after all, it gives them something to talk about. Media coverage and commentary relating to a drop in Pope Francis’ popularity rating in a recent Gallup poll was an illustration of that. Gallup found the pope with a favorable rating of 59 percent now, compared with 76 percent […]
9/16/15
Reading Time 3 min

Jailed for defending marriage

By Father Tad Pacholczyk
Kim Davis, the now-famous clerk in Rowan County, Ky., who became known for her refusal to issue marriage licenses, was arrested and incarcerated in early September. She refused to affix her signature to licenses being sought by two people of the same sex, even after the Supreme Court had legalized same-sex marriage, noting that this […]
9/16/15
Reading Time 3 min

Popes in these United States

By George Weigel
The history of popes in these United States is full of surprises. And one of them, to begin at the beginning, includes the little-known fact that Blessed Paul VI was not the first pontiff to set foot on American territory, when he landed at newly-renamed John F. Kennedy International Airport Oct. 4, 1965. No, the […]
9/15/15
Reading Time 3 min

Remembering ‘the few’

By George Weigel
Seventy-five years ago, on Sept. 15, 1940, Winston Churchill and his wife Clementine were driven from the prime minister’s country house, Chequers, to the nearby village of Uxbridge, a Royal Air Force station and the headquarters from which Air Vice-Marshal Keith Park was directing the RAF’s No. 11 Group against the onslaught of the German […]
9/9/15
Reading Time 3 min

Communion from priest only?

By Fr. Kenneth Doyle
Q. It has been 30 years since I last saw this happen, but at Sunday Mass yesterday a couple and their two children got up from a pew in front of me just as Communion was about to be distributed and walked around our section of pews in order to get in line to receive […]
9/9/15
Reading Time 2 min

Overcoming the loneliness epidemic

By Elizabeth Foss
There is the faintest hint of crispness in the dawn these days, just a little teaser that alludes to autumn’s approach. The seasons are shifting. A previously quick early-morning grocery run took 45 minutes transit time one way yesterday. Back-to-school traffic is a real thing, friends. September is a season of gathering. Everywhere we go, […]
9/9/15
Reading Time 3 min

A tale of two crosses

By Fr. Stanley J. Krempa
In this Sunday’s Gospel reading, two crosses loom before our eyes: the cross of Christ and our own cross. In the first part of the Gospel, Jesus speaks about His coming suffering and crucifixion. It seemed scandalous to Peter who, as most people in those days, saw suffering as only a curse and without redeeming […]
9/9/15
Reading Time 3 min

Pope simplifies annulment process

By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY – While a juridical process is necessary for making accurate judgments, the Catholic Church’s marriage annulment process must be quicker, cheaper and much more of a pastoral ministry, Pope Francis said. Rewriting a section of the Latin-rite Code of Canon Law and of the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches, Pope Francis […]
9/8/15
Reading Time 4 min

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