commentary
Listening to God’s word between Christmas and Lent
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(RNS) — This is “Ordinary Time” — a boring title for the part of the year that is not Advent, Christmas, Lent or Easter. But it is also an opportunity to be an extraordinary Catholic.
commentary
Baby Jesus was a Dreamer in Egypt
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(RNS) — Christians, especially those who believe that Scripture should be the foundation of American law, should be leading the charge in support of Dreamers, refugees and other immigrants.
Opinion
Conservative Catholic dissidents attack Popes Francis and Benedict
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Conservative Catholic dissidents, who have been attacking Francis, showed their true colors recently by attacking Benedict for his subversive writings and modernist tendencies.
Signs of the Times
Bernard Law, a cardinal of scandal and disgrace
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(RNS) — Cardinal Law’s life is a cautionary tale of what can happen to an ambitious cleric who loses sight of his duty to serve the people of God.
Opinion
Abandoning celibacy won’t stop sexual abuse by priests
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(RNS) — We know for a fact that noncelibate men, including married men, also abuse children.
commentary
Father Roy Moore would be suspended
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(RNS) — The Republican Party has not learned from the mistakes of the Catholic bishops in dealing with sexual abuse. They are operating out of the same playbook as the bishops did before they wised up and changed their policies.
Opinion
Giving tax reform a bad name
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(RNS) — Once again, an opportunity for true tax reform has been missed. Rather than reform, Congress is moving the tax system in the wrong direction.
Opinion
Pope Francis, diplomatic prophet in Myanmar
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(RNS) — Pope Francis was faced with a terrible dilemma: Be prophetic and put at risk Christians in Myanmar, or be silent and compromise his moral authority. He chose neither.
Opinion
Pope Francis shouldn’t risk going to Myanmar
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(RNS) — Next week Pope Francis will visit Myanmar, where he risks either compromising his moral authority or putting in danger the Christians of that country. I have great admiration for the pope and his abilities, but someone should have talked him out of making this visit.
Opinion
Bishop McElroy decries extremism on religious freedom, calls for solidarity in American politics
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WASHINGTON (RNS) — Bishop Robert McElroy of San Diego criticized both extremes in the fight over religious freedom and called for public consensus based on solidarity to heal our nation in this hyper-partisan age.
Opinion
Catholic bishops take on racism in society and the church
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(RNS) — “Christ wishes to break down the walls created by the evils of racism,” Bishop George Murry of Youngstown told the U.S. Catholic bishops who are in Baltimore for their annual November meeting.
Opinion
Papal loyalists become dissidents
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(RNS) — What is remarkable about the critics of Pope Francis is that during the papacies of John Paul and Benedict, they harshly criticized as dissidents and heretics anyone who questioned papal teaching. It is clear that their loyalty was not to the successor of Peter but to their own theological opinions.
commentary
Churches are usually reluctant to push tax reform. But Catholic bishops are trying.
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WASHINGTON (RNS) — Churches are reluctant to get involved in tax reform because it is complicated and they fear the impact of reform on themselves and their donors. So it was surprising to see the U.S. Catholic bishops grapple with this controversial topic.
Opinion
Why the ecumenical movement is a historical event on par with the Reformation
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(RNS) — Ecumenism did so much during the last century to heal the divisions among Christians. (COMMENTARY)
Opinion
Beyond Halloween: Witches, devils, trials and executions
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(RNS) — As Halloween approaches, the Rev. David Collins, a Jesuit professor of history at Georgetown University, takes us back to a time in European history when witches were persecuted and executed by society.