Doctrines and dogmas do not exist to provide esoteric data. Their purpose is always to tell us who we are, to proclaim who we can be in Christ.

The car flipped over 10 times. Maybe 15. I woke up to steel smashing against cement, over and over, over and over. Glass shattered and flew in my face and hair.

The grand jury report, released Aug. 14, 2018, was based on a monthslong investigation into alleged abuse in the dioceses of Pittsburgh, Allentown, Scranton, Erie, Harrisburg and Greensburg, Pennsylvania. It covered a 70-year period starting in 1947.

Who would claim that the platforms of either the Democratic or the Republican parties fully mirror Gospel values?

How do we keep them, or anyone really, Catholic? To keep them, we have to stop asking that question in the first place.

A major expansion of the project will effectively double the number of parishioners whose names will be indexed in the digital archives.