Check out these recent articles from around the web: Don’t Blame Francis for Church’s Divisions by Cathleen Kaveny: “It was Neuhaus, after all, who advanced the view that conservative Roman Catholics have more in common with orthodox Jews and Evangelical Protestants than they do with progressive members of their own religious communities. In fact, that… Read More Around the Web

Check out these recent articles from around the web: Stumbling into the Pro-Life Movement by Jessica Keating: “Even at the time, I had questions that someone in favor of abortion rights shouldn’t have. Why did we call the unborn, babies and children, when they were planned for and wanted, but fetuses when they were not?… Read More Around the Web

Check out these recent articles from around the web: What’s on Pope Francis’ plate for the first part of 2016 by John Allen: “From foreign policy challenges to a potential turning point in Catholic/Jewish relations, from a six-day trip to Mexico that includes a stop at the US border, to a jam-packed schedule for his… Read More Around the Web

Check out these recent articles from around the web: The death penalty’s demise can’t come soon enough by Washington Post: “Several places around the country hand down an astonishing number of death sentences, despite the expense in applying the ultimate punishment, despite the fact that exonerations continue to expose injustice in administering it and despite… Read More Around the Web

Check out these recent articles from around the web: Looking Back at 2015: The Church by Michael Sean Winters: “Something is moving in the Church, and it is not wrong to believe it is the Holy Spirit. That was the story of the Church in 2015, a story of freshness and vigor. It was a… Read More Around the Web

Check out these recent articles from around the web: Mother Teresa, about to be named a saint, felt terrible pain ‘of God not wanting me’ by Fr. James Martin, SJ: “For decades, then, Mother Teresa remained faithful to her original call. Unlike almost any other saint, she carried out her ministry without the benefit of… Read More Around the Web

Check out these recent articles from around the web: The Year of Mercy Begins by Michael Sean Winters: “This is what mercy looks like in action: It consoles, it liberates, it gives courage, it brings light, it offers help. (And, its exercise will arouse Jansenists!) Mercy is more than an ethic, more than a dogma.… Read More Around the Web