The facts of the Gosnell case are gut-wrenching enough: women treated worse than livestock going to the slaughter, babies sliced and diced and stored or disposed…
Last month the Pew Research Center conducted an interesting survey on attitudes toward end-of-life medical treatments. It found that 49 percent of Americans oppose physician assisted…
But first, some good news for Catholic Democrats. Given the large margin by which Republicans control the new Congress (301-234, counting both houses) and the fact…
In a sign of unity remarkable in itself, the editorial boards of America magazine, the National Catholic Register, the National Catholic Reporter, and Our Sunday Visitor,…
Tomorrow, on the Feast of the Annunciation, we mark also the 20th anniversary of the promulgation of St. John Paul II’s Evangelium Vitae. In that encyclical, the…
In October of last year, 29-year-old terminally ill brain cancer patient Brittany Maynard made national news when she posted a video to YouTube explaining her reasons…
Easter is a time for initiating people into the Church. In many Catholic parishes this happens through RCIA: the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults. But…
In the encyclical Evangelium Vitae (which, given recent events, Catholics would do well to revisit in earnest), St. John Paul II warned of the tendency…