A careful study of history can certainly go a long way toward understanding the present, but it is useless to justify the present. The moral challenge concerns the next choice we make, not the last.

Everyone wants to believe that there is a reason for everything that happens and that good prevails over evil. We know it does not always happen that way.

Doing what we can to bring people together, to build community and to foster the sense of belonging of which Father Michael Rozier speaks is hugely important if we are to care for the whole person.

You give me hope for the future in a very grim present.

This is a thoughtful article that goes to the heart of much of the divisiveness in the church today. The charge that polling is flawed because it isn't focused on 'real' Catholics is a cudgel in the culture wars.

Being pro-life means a lot more than being anti-abortion.