by admin | Jul 22, 2015 | Catholic social teaching, Church teaching, Faithful citizenship, Respect for life
By Jeff Caruso, Executive Director Like many others, I was horrified after watching two undercover videos in which Planned Parenthood officials nonchalantly discussed harvesting and distributing body parts of aborted babies for research. Produced by the pro-life...
by admin | Jul 1, 2015 | Catholic social teaching, Church teaching, Faithful citizenship, Living the faith, Religious liberty
Last week’s disappointing and troublesome Supreme Court decision that imposes a false definition of marriage on all 50 states was not surprising or unexpected. Many are celebrating. However, Friday’s ruling by nine unaccountable judges is nevertheless an attempt to...
by admin | Jun 24, 2015 | Catholic social teaching, Economic justice, Faithful citizenship, Living the faith, Respect for life
The release of Pope Francis’s second encyclical, Laudato Si’, last week has sparked a much-needed global conversation about how human and environmental ecology are inextricably intertwined. Laudato Si’ is the first papal encyclical to acknowledge the effects of human...
by admin | Jun 1, 2015 | Catholic social teaching, Church teaching, Education, Faithful citizenship, Living the faith, Religious liberty
This year the Virginia Catholic Conference celebrates its 10th anniversary. In this “from the tiber to the james” video blog post Executive Director Jeff Caruso reminisces about the early days of the Conference and looks ahead to the future. Take a...
by admin | May 14, 2015 | Catholic social teaching, Church teaching, Death Penalty, Faithful citizenship, Living the faith
In a recent letter to the president of the International Commission against the Death Penalty, Pope Francis wrote, “Today capital punishment is unacceptable, however serious the condemned’s crime may have been. It is an offence to the inviolability of life and to the...
by admin | May 6, 2015 | Catholic social teaching, Church teaching, Faithful citizenship, Marriage and family, Religious liberty
Last week, the movement to redefine marriage to include same-sex couples reached a crescendo in oral arguments presented before the U.S. Supreme Court. The case, Obergefell v. Hodges, seeks to overturn a decision by the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals upholding marriage...
