Insights & Resources
Ahmed Shaheed, the United Nations special rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief, discusses state-sanctioned intolerance and explains that whe...
Sally Roesch Wagner tells the story of Matilda Joslyn Gage, a late 19th-century women’s suffragist and an early pioneer in the unending fight again...
CFC’s Charlotte Clymer sits down with comedy legend and reproductive justice advocate Lizz Winstead for a wide-ranging conversation about everythin...
ACLU attorneys Chase Strangio and Leslie Cooper provide a primer on Fulton v. City of Philadelphia, a landmark case pending before the Supreme Cour...
CATHOLICS FOR CHOICE honors the life and mourns the loss of internationally renowned Swiss scholar Fr. Hans Küng, who died on April 6 at the age of...
FOLLOWING COMMENTS IN AN interview with former Secretary of State and New York Sen. Hillary Clinton, Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francis...
The Church and Scandal US Dioceses Accept $1.5 billion in Federal Pandemic, Despite Overflowing Coffers and Vaccine Qualms
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...