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Faith leaders push for major reforms in solitary confinement practices
WASHINGTON -- The “SHU” is not much larger than a good-size bathroom.
Finding God's grace in this season of change
Late June and early July typically finds most people settling in to a slightly slower schedule – kids are out of school, vacations are planned and taken and days stretch out affording more time to sit, relax or engage in our favorite activities.
The Catholic call to welcome and protect life
On the eve of World Youth Day 2016 in Poland, Pope Francis gave a beautiful address urging leaders to support the family, the “primary and fundamental cell of society.
Building a better world through service, sacrifice
Following the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, children’s television icon Fred Rogers shared this insight from his mother: “Always look for the helpers.”
How should Catholics react to changes in the culture?
Catholics, like all Christians, are called to transform the world into the image of Christ. From a Western perspective, it worked quite successfully for more than a millennia. Lately, not so well.
As missionaries, we know that mercy changes the world
On World Mission Sunday, Oct. 23, all Catholics of the world join into one community of faith. At Mass that Sunday, we recommit ourselves to our common vocation, through Baptism, to be missionaries, through prayer, participation in the Eucharist and by giving generously to the collection for the Society for …
LIFE ISSUES FORUM: Our faith requires that we kill the pain, not the patient
In the coming months, dozens of states will be confronted with efforts to legalize physician-assisted suicide. Under the guise of compassion and autonomy, the expansion of this practice would really mean the legalized abandonment of people who are terminally ill.
What is our responsibility to the hungry in a land of bounty?
Where does food come from? The grocery store, of course. Many children who live in urban settings don't have the faintest idea where food comes from. In some countries, the food that keeps people alive comes from convoys of trucks with "USAID" written on the bags.
The world needs saints . . . especially now
Most likely you are reading this shortly before, or shortly after the U.S. presidential election.
Doctors, patients should 'do no harm' with covenant of medical care
The Hippocratic Oath was composed around the fourth century. While it is under 400 words, the oath represents the beginnings of scientific medicine as we know it today. It brought an end to superstitious beliefs regarding the causes and cures of diseases.
Let's embrace Advent
We look forward to the first Sunday of Advent, Nov. 27. Beginning the Church's liturgical year, Advent (from "ad venire" in Latin, or "to come to") is the season encompassing the four Sundays (and weekdays) leading up to the celebration of Christmas.
Accountability on pro-life promises
The last several years have clearly been challenging for the pro-life movement. The abortion industry, exposing its false rhetoric of choice, increasingly seeks to coerce Americans to be complicit with abortion, even insisting that abortion is a social good to be celebrated, subsidized and uncontrolled.
Our nation's founding values are worth protecting
During a recent visit to the Aquinas Institute, Princeton, to view an enlightening exhibit, The Printed Word: Faith Aspirations of a Young Nation, I was particularly interested in a display of Jewish religious texts and artifacts.
Nonpublic school transportation funding a growing crisis
Largely off the media radar is an ever-growing, serious, and unnecessary transportation problem for many New Jersey Catholic schools.
Supporting the right to ride
In contrast to education or health care, few think of transportation as a basic human right. But the ability to get from one place to another became an essential part of daily life as soon as farming ceased to be the way most people made a living.
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