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IN THE MOST RECENT DEVELOPEMENT in a years-long financial scandal that has made international headlines, in late January the Vatican’s criminal tri...
“THE BLESSING OF HOMOSEXUAL unions cannot be considered licit,” stated the doctrinal enforcement office of the Vatican in mid-March. In a blow to w...
AFTER FR. JAMES MARTIN obtained hierarchical support to end bullying of LGBTQ youths in the United States, Life Site News circulated a petition cal...
THE UNITED STATES CONFERENCE of Catholic Bishops has come out in opposition to the reintroduction of the Equality Act in the 2021 session of the U....
EARLY 2021 WITNESSED A flurry of contradictory statements and actions by the Vatican on the future of women’s leadership in the church. Announcing ...
Building on extensive surveys, interviews and participant observation data, Maureen K. Day’s new work is a timely look into the faith development o...
"Where indiscriminate church authority and discerned communal autonomy collide, faithful conscience prevails."
FAITH IS CENTRAL TO ME and guides how I live my life. The foundation of that faith was laid by my parents and Catholicism. Born and raised Catholic...
I READ WITH INTEREST YOUR survey analysis “How Catholics Voted” by Karl Agne (Dec. 18, 2020). The findings include items of political, demographic ...
Poll workers often go unpaid or are paid very little. For this reason, I now understand why BIPOC, lower income individuals or just the “Average Jo...
WITH EXIT POLLING Indicating 56% of Catholics support legalized abortion, “How Catholics Voted” (Dec. 18, 2020) was an energizing piece describing ...
I WAS NOT PREPARED FOR THE flood of emotions and questions I had reading the title of Pearl Ricks’ piece, “Making a Failed System Work.” As a Black...
All Faiths and None: A Guide to Protecting Religious Liberty for Everyone Law, Rights, and Religion Project at Columbia University and Auburn Semin...
IN LIGHT OF THE HISTORIC 2020 elections, the most recent issues of Conscience have generated a great deal of reflection for me. Taken together, the...
As an estimated 98% of abortions in Poland are directly attributable to severe defects and fetal abnormalities, the practical consequences of the c...
AFTER DECADES OF STRUGGLE on the part of pro-choice activists, in a historic move that made news across the globe, Argentina in late January 2021 become only the second democratically elected government in South America to legalize abortion.
AS REPORTED IN A FEBRUARY 2021 New York Times piece by Julie Turkewitz, unplanned pregnancies in Venezuela have exploded as the country sinks furth...