What many Americans may still not realize is that Ireland is embracing the culture of death with a zeal and gusto that few other countries -- even traditionally secularized ones -- would be so foolish as to imitate.Read More

Rome does indeed move slowly, but the U.S. bishops, who are clearly feeling the pressure from their people, are committed to applying pressure of their own.Read More

We cannot allow the shame of the devastating failings we now confront to cause us to pause or in any way delay the essential work of the church — sharing God’s love, forgiveness and healing as we work also to promote common understanding, acceptance and mutual respect in a troubled world.Read More

Father Doyle fields questions about whether annual confession is mandated and not being able to understand a priest.Read More

Harden not your heart. Combat disaster fatigue with compassion.Read More

As Catholic Christians, we know that we never really lose anyone we love. We might just be physically separated for a while.Read More

Our medical system has been giving up on far too many of these patients, prematurely ensuring their deaths based on faulty diagnoses and self-fulfilling hopeless predictions.Read More

We need a church that recovers what it means to be a family, a family that can disagree and argue passionately about things, but also that loves one another.Read More