by admin | Jun 30, 2016 | Catholic social teaching, Church teaching, Faithful citizenship, Living the faith, Marriage and family, Religious liberty
By Jeff Caruso, Executive Director, Virginia Catholic Conference The Catholic Church in the U.S. is in the midst of its fifth annual Fortnight for Freedom – 14 days of prayer, education and action for religious freedom in our country and throughout the world. Freedom...
by admin | Jun 22, 2016 | Catholic social teaching, Economic justice, Environment, Living the faith, Norfolk, Tidewater
By Lonnie Ellis, OFS Climate change is a moral issue. One year ago, Pope Francis made this point emphatically with his encyclical Laudato Si. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has warned about climate change many times—with a major statement in 2001, and...
by admin | Jun 15, 2016 | Catholic social teaching, Church teaching, Faithful citizenship, Gender, Human Sexuality, Living the faith
By Rev. Paul D. Scalia Last week we considered the role of the Church’s social teaching in the public square. Now we consider in particular the Church’s teaching on “gender identity.” At any rate, that is how many people would frame it. In fact, the Church has no...
by admin | Jun 8, 2016 | Uncategorized
By Rev. Paul D. Scalia North Carolina’s bathroom laws have received no small amount of attention. But before such controversies arrived in North Carolina, they were already known here in Virginia. Stafford, Fairfax, and Gloucester counties have all had debates...
by admin | Mar 11, 2016 | Catholic social teaching, Church teaching, criminal justice, Death Penalty, Faithful citizenship, Living the faith, mercy, Religious liberty, Respect for life
As the Virginia General Assembly’s 2016 session draws to a close, legislators are holding final votes on key bills, including the budget. On Wednesday, a joint House/Senate conference committee released its budget agreement. The Virginia Catholic Conference is...
