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Gen Z is the least religious generation. It also goes to Church the most. While most Zoomers reject the ‘outdated superstitions’ of their parents, a devout minority remains highly engaged. Young Americans are not lukewarm. They’re either all-out or all-in.Archbishop Charles Thompson kneels before th...

The U.S. bishops’ conference is set to vote next week on a revised version of their landmark safeguarding document, the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People.USCCB headquarters, Washington, D.C. Credit: Fr. Gaurav Schroff, Flickr CC BY SA 2.0.But while there have been calls in rece...

When Father Richard Rocha quit coaching high school football to enter seminary, he thought he would be stepping away from athletics for good.But in 2005, a few years into his priesthood, Bishop Robert Finn, who was then bishop of the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph, asked him to take on two additi...

The bishop of Quelimane, Mozambique was shot early Saturday morning in his residence. Bishop Osório Citora Afonso was 54 years old.Bishop Osório Citora Afonso. Credit: Mozambique episcopal conference. Details of the killing are yet to emerge. No arrests have been made, no suspects arrested, and moti...

Paul declares that our security in Christ is guaranteed by God who “has also put his seal upon us and given the Spirit in our hearts as a first installment” (2 Cor. 1:22). The term “first installment” translates the Greek word, arrabón which is defined as “an installment; a deposit (‘down-payment’)...

Many Catholic ethics courses are badly organized. If the end of Catholic ethics is to make people virtuous, teachers would do well to put the “hot button” issues on the backburner and bring the daily, commonplace virtues to the fore. A high school teacher and tenured associate professor, I taught et...

There is no institution more in need of reconsideration than the public high school. We have inherited a model constructed largely from industrial assumptions: age-segregated cohorts, prolonged adolescence, generalized curricula, and an educational trajectory that extends dependency well into early...

What is the longest prayer prayed by Christ in the gospels? It is the High Priestly Prayer of Christ in the 17th chapter of John, which is one long conversation between Christ and His Father. Centuries before, Moses petitioned God on behalf of his stiff-necked people: If I find favor with you, O Lor...

“John Paul II taught that the body has a ‘spousal meaning.’ It is made to express love as a free, total, faithful, and fruitful gift.” I graduated from high school in May of 1968. With my whole adult life ahead of me and college on the horizon, I wasn’t paying much attention to what was happening in...

A few years ago, a religious sister shared a dream that has remained with me ever since. Her life is devoted to caring for those with severe mental and physical disabilities in Mumbai. In the dream she saw ordinary city streets. Open drains and sewers brimmed with filthy water and refuse. Floating a...

Shortly after turning 50, my late father had to leave behind two decades of practicing law to go on full-time disability. At 7 years old, he had contracted Rheumatic Fever. That was the beginning of 61 long years of suffering. He spent a year of his childhood paralyzed. He spent a year homeschooling...

A few definitions will help at the outset. By IVF, or in vitro fertilization, I mean the generation of human embryos outside the body, ordinarily in a laboratory setting, with later transfer to the womb (Donum Vitae II.B; Dignitas Personae 12–18). By abortion, I mean the deliberate termination of th...