by admin | Jun 25, 2013 | Catholic social teaching, Faithful citizenship, Immigration, Marriage and family, Religious liberty
Week 2 of the prayer- and action-focused Fortnight for Freedom, called for by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, is about to begin. While the USCCB launched the initiative, Archbishop Chaput of Philadelphia reminds us that the fight to preserve religious liberty...
by admin | Jun 19, 2013 | Catholic social teaching, Faithful citizenship, Immigration, Marriage and family
In 1620, a group of men and women landed in Plymouth, Massachusetts after escaping religious persecution in Europe. One hundred sixty-seven years later, religious liberty was enshrined in our country’s founding document. So essential was this belief that the First...
by admin | Jun 12, 2013 | Catholic social teaching, Marriage and family
During each of the last several Virginia General Assembly sessions, the Virginia Catholic Conference successfully opposed legislation to repeal Virginia’s constitutional amendment preserving marriage as the institution of one man and one woman. But we know the battle...
by admin | Jun 5, 2013 | Catholic social teaching, Faithful citizenship
In today’s vitriolic political culture of sound bites and partisanship, it’s not always easy as Catholics to practice our call to faithful citizenship. The public square may be filled with partisans, but the Church’s social teaching is consistent and neither “left”...
by admin | May 29, 2013 | Catholic social teaching, Economic justice, From the Tiber to the James, Immigration, Marriage and family, Uncategorized
“Immigration is the civil rights test of our generation.” So says Archbishop Jose Gomez of Los Angeles, speaking of the dire need to reform our broken immigration system. There’s lively debate surrounding Congress’s latest efforts to reform immigration. “Illegal...
by admin | May 22, 2013 | Catholic social teaching, Immigration, Marriage and family
Imagine a life without our family: a life without the celebrations, the struggles, and the love that family provides. Almost unimaginable, isn’t it? At its very foundation, human society is organized around the family. It is the vital heart of community, our...
