Let’s get started and lend our voices to this symphony through our charity to the sick and the elderly on the World Day of the Sick!
Commentary
Bringing clarity, context to the U.S. bishops’ stance in immigration debate
Most Americans do want a solution to the perceived chaos on our borders. The U.S. bishops following Catholic social teaching do recognize that national sovereignty affords nations’ the right to control their borders. We have never advocated for “open borders” or that “bad actors” should be admitted indiscriminately or that wrong doers of any type be free to roam our streets and endanger our citizens.
Analysis: New immigration policies risk sending migrants back to failed states, war zones
As part of swift and sweeping changes to immigration policy, the Trump administration is aiming to end or severely curtail two forms of immigration status that have been granted to hundreds of thousands escaping war, disaster, violence and humanitarian crises — Temporary Protected Status and humanitarian parole.
What is keeping you from heaven?
The only one who can keep us from heaven is ourselves.
Meditating on Christ’s passion with St. Thomas More
These last written words from St. Thomas More offered a timely reminder to have courage and lean on Christ in the face of struggles new and old for his strength “is made perfect in weakness.”
Catholics, Hippocrates, and reforming American medicine
The willful participation of physicians and other medical professionals in the practice of abortion flatly contradicts the Hippocratic Oath — long the moral framework for sound medical practice — in its original form.
Marriage: A sacrament of lasting love
Married life gives us a glimpse of the eternal union of God and his church and calls each spouse to build the other up for everlasting life in heaven.
Question Corner: Can you receive Communion twice in one day?
A faithful Catholic may indeed receive holy Communion twice in one day — but the second reception must be within the context of a Mass.
Freedom of worship for migrants
While a raid on church property may not be a legal threat to religious liberty in every circumstance, it is certainly a moral one.
On the journey toward sainthood
We remember Brother James on Feb. 13, the anniversary of his martyrdom, and pray for a miracle to advance his cause for canonization.
Lunar New Year: This Year Takes the Snake (Cake)
The timing of the holiday is always just what I need—a festival that arrives in between the gap of the rejoicing of Christmas and the warmth and light of springtime. Here we are in the in-between times, celebrating with food and loved ones and fun.
You have my permission to cry and shout
How many of us are walking around with broken hearts because we won’t permit ourselves the medicine of weeping and fully feeling the things we’ve determinedly repressed because we want that illusion of strength?