Friday, Sep 10, 2010

Editorials

Views in the news: Denver Archbishop: JFK’s 1960 speech damaged believers’ role in public life
Mar. 10, 2010, By Nancy Frazier O’Brien
Although John F. Kennedy’s famous speech in Houston nearly 50 years ago could be seen as “a passionate appeal for tolerance,” the candidate’s remarks about how his Catholicism would affect his presidency “profoundly undermined the place ... of all ...

The complexity of health care reform
Feb. 24, 2010, By Sister Mary Ann Walsh, RSM
The United States can handle complexity. However, this health care crisis offers a challenge on many levels. When, for example, in the land of the free, can government make someone purchase health insurance? When is it safer to provide preventive care to all to avoid the spread ...

Guest Commentary: Priests serve gladly but not without criticism
Feb. 3, 2010, By Most Reverend Timothy M. Dolan
Remember the time when some of his parishioners in the village of Ars went to their Curé with a problem? They reported to St. John Vianney that, sad as it was to tell him, there was a petition to the bishop being circulated in Ars claiming that he, their pastor, was ...

The Truth about Immigrants and Health Care
Jan. 6, 2010, By Bishop John C. Wester
Representative Joe Wilson’s now infamous “You lie” shout out to President Obama during his health care speech to Congress was featured in the press as an unprecedented breach of protocol.

Of many things
Oct. 28, 2009, By Father James Martin, S.J.
Over the last few years, I have conducted something of an unplanned survey on parish life around the country. Since 2006 I have visited around 50 parishes – mainly in New York, Connecticut, New Jersey and Pennsylvania – but also in Maryland, Massachusetts, California ...

Guest Commentary: Health care reform: A Catholic priority
Oct. 7, 2009, By George Wesolek
The Catholic Church has a great investment in health care reform in the United States. For Catholics, and many other people of faith, health care is a ministry that we do as a way of acting out our faith.

Catholic senators’ unsettling votes
Oct. 7, 2009, By Jack Smith
Catholic senators were the decisive factor in denying an amendment to secure conscience protection for health care workers and block federal funding for abortion in a Sept. 30 vote by the U.S. Senate’s Finance Committee.

Guest Commentary: Push to ‘normalize’ abortion
Aug. 19, 2009, By Helen M. Alvaré
You’ve likely heard details from many sources about abortion and current health care reform proposals. You may have read about what current proposals would do: abolish state limitations on abortion, and trample conscience rights of morally or religiously opposed medical ...

Guest Commentary: Emotions, false analogies fuel anti-Prop. 8 fire
Jun. 10, 2009, By Margaret A. Bengs
A troubling aspect of the same-sex marriage debate is the rampant misuse of terminology traditionally associated with the civil rights movement – terms that confuse, rather than clarify, the issues.

Taking a measured view
May. 13, 2009, By Michael Vick
The Vatican’s semi-official newspaper L’Osservatore Romano marked the May 4 Roman premiere of the film “Angels and Demons” with two editorials decrying the film as riddled with historical errors but praising its “dynamic direction” and “splendid photography”.

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