Chicago-Area Catholic Principal Who Defied Mask Mandate Won’t Return to School, Pastor Says
Courtesy Photo M. Jacob “Doc” Mathius, the former principal of Queen of Martyrs School in Evergreen Park, Illinois. During Mathius’ suspension, parents of Queen of Martyrs students protested outside the school building on two occasions.
‘They Might Be Saints’ – Bishop Frederic Baraga
Matthew Brady, “Bishop Frederic Baraga,” ca. 1853-1860 Is beatification on the horizon for the “Snowshoe Priest” of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula?
Study Challenges Claim that Legalizing Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide Could ‘Save Lives’
Patrick Thomas The article compared Switzerland, Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg with neighboring states where EAS remains illegal. “This is further evidence that legalizing assisted suicide or euthanasia will result in more people ending their lives prematurely. It will not save lives. It will not help prevent suicide.”
Crossing the Threshold of the Gospel of Life
Massimo Sambucetti Pope St. John Paul II pauses moments before closing the Holy Door of Saint Peter’s Basilica, Jan. 6, 2001. Imagine how valuable our human life must be if ‘the Son of God has taken it up and made it the instrument of the salvation of humanity.’
‘I believe in my faith, not in the hierarchy of men’: Listening to those who have left the Catholic church behind
Readers respond to the February 2022 editorial about how the listening phase of the 2023 Synod of Bishops should listen to the views of Catholics who have left the church.
The key to a post-pandemic ‘new normal’? Solidarity.
As the world begins to emerge from the most recent surge of the Covid-19 pandemic, how do we return to normal? And what should normal mean?
Urban planning can facilitate friendship — and the Catholic church can help
We need a new image of what it means to be a good neighbor.
We need to make the common good more than just a slogan
Christians today are split between “bottom-up” and “top-down” approaches to re-invigorating our sense of the common good.
The Jesuits run Russia’s only Catholic secondary school, where love is shown more in deeds than in words
My new motto has become, “Preach the Exercises always; when necessary, use words.”
In architecture, every detail has a purpose — and its meaning can be sacred
The Palace of Westminster’s architecture and design are not proposing a new religion or alternative deity. Rather, they reflect a pre-existing reality, specifically, a Christian imagination.