After Harrison Butker, outspoken Catholic and kicker for the Kansas City Chiefs, delivered a controversial commencement speech, Madison Chastain suggests he take his own oft-delivered advice and stay in his own lane.
"It seems very much as though the U.S. bishops reject the position that won the election for John Kennedy and credibility for Catholics in U.S. politics," writes Steven P. Millies.
"Father Justin" debacle makes Rebecca Bratten Weiss "wonder whether some Catholics would be more likely to welcome a robot pope overlord than they would be to accept a woman in a position of ministerial leadership."
Tackling matters that are the topic of political debates today, the new Vatican document Dignitas Infinita, or "Infinite Dignity," drew more controversy than intended.
Like many others, we in the New York City Catholic Worker community do not know what to do in the midst of our heartbreak and deep sorrow for all lives lost in Israel and Palestine.
About 50 people protested outside the Kansas City National Security Campus April 15, calling for an end to nuclear weapons and criticizing a proposed expansion there. Thomas C. Fox was one of 10 people arrested.
Dignitas Infinita fails to treat women and transgender persons with the basic respect and consideration their dignity requires, writes theologian M. Therese Lysaught.