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How we can follow in St. Isidore the farmer's footsteps
We had a garden in our backyard at home and I assisted with that. Planting the flowers (from seed) was my specialty. I still remember watching the alyssum, zinnias, snapdragons and other flowers come to life.
'Do this in memory of me'
Our Memorial Day was originally known as “Decoration Day,” an opportunity to decorate many graves of the over 600,000 men who died in the Civil War.
Rep. Smith: Protect Life Rule reasserts needed regulations for Title X funding
(On May 18), the Trump Administration announced its intention to reassert and promulgate portions of President Ronald Reagan’s modest but necessary life-affirming Title X Rule – a policy designed to ensure that taxpayers don’t fund, facilitate or promote abortion in America’s $286 million-per-year family planning program.
How to get past the polarization
In our belligerent times, there is a kind of in-your-face response to those of us wringing our hands about how divided our country is.
Taking a public health crisis seriously
The recent tragic deaths of fashion designer Kate Spade and celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain have dramatized what The New York Times calls the "public health crisis" of suicide.
Encore: A conversation about 'Humanae Vitae' may finally be possible
NEW YORK -- Can one imagine a more difficult year for "Humanae Vitae" ("Of Human Life") to be heard than 1968?
What are judges for?
With the retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy from the Supreme Court, interest groups and politicians are insisting that any replacement must pledge to uphold the court's Roe v. Wade decision on abortion.
One word: dignity
Christian or Muslim. Pro-life or pro-choice. Liberal or conservative. One of us or one of them.
Praying For Peace at the Pentagon
Every Monday morning for the past 30 years, members of the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker community in Washington, D.C. have been making their way across the Potomac River to pray and nonviolently witness for peace in front of the most symbolic war planning, war-making headquarters on earth: the Pentagon.
Bilingualism is our Catholic treasure
How many languages do you speak? I speak two, English and Spanish. I can also read comfortably in two other languages.
3,000-plus Hispanic Catholic leaders to meet, what to expect
The time is here. On Sept. 20-23, 2018, more than 3,000 Hispanic Catholic leaders and others from nearly every diocese in the country will meet in Dallas for the V National Encuentro of Hispanic/Latino Ministry (V Encuentro) main meeting.
Sweden's Catholic past and future
Standing in a field north of Stockholm, I was looking at a Viking rune, an arrow-shaped stone as tall as a person.
Contradictions and tensions in U.S. Catholicism that still unnerve me
In recent decades, the Vatican has condemned the books of a number of United States theologians and writers.
The wages of net neutrality's repeal can be fatal
It is not too big of a leap to say that the end of net neutrality is both lethal and fatal. Ask the California wildfire fighters.
The urgent need for a moral values-centered education
It’s that time of year again, when many children, teens and adults fortunate enough to have access to formal education (see: https://bit.ly/1Yf2IzZ), head back to school to learn about such things as math, science, history and the arts.
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