Social Justice

U.S. Bishops’ Subcommittee On The Catholic Campaign For Human Development Approves $500,000 Strategic National Grant to put Laudato Si’ in Action

07/24/2020 at 5:36 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
U.S. Bishops’ Subcommittee On The Catholic Campaign For Human Development Approves $500,000 Strategic National Grant to put Laudato Si’ in Action July 22, 2020 WASHINGTON—The Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD), the domestic anti-poverty program of the U.S. Conference of... read more
Bishop Thomas Daley, Diocese of Spokane

Spokane Bishop Responds to Catholic Charities Racism Video

07/07/2020 at 10:39 AM By Kevin Edward White
Catholic News Agency, July 7, 2020 In response to the controversy, in the Diocese of Spokane “the Annual Catholic Charities Christmas Collection will either be replaced by or taken in conjunction with the Black and Indian Missions Collection,” Bishop Daly said.SPOKANE, Wa. — Both the... read more

Defund the USCCB

06/24/2020 at 5:59 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
BY FRANCIS LEE,  JUNE 19, 2020 “Judas was the first Catholic Bishop to accept a government grant.” — Peter Kreeft An integral part of Pope Paul VI’s vision of a more “synodal” Church, his muto proprio Ecclesiae Sanctae called for the establishment of national bishops’... read more

Compelled Sexual Affirmation in the School Bathroom

12/02/2019 at 4:18 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Gerard V. Bradley, Public Discourse, December 1. 2019 The case against compelled affirmation policies needs to be more explicitly and vividly sexualized. The argument against these policies must be rooted in the civil liberties of objecting students and the right not be forced to be the... read more

Is It Time to Abolish the USCCB?

09/21/2019 at 4:03 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
By LEILA MARIE LAWLER, SEPTEMBER 16, 2019 “If I must speak the truth, I feel disposed to shun every conference of Bishops: for never saw I Synod brought to a happy issue, and remedying, and not rather aggravating, existing evils…” — St. Gregory of Nazianzus, 382 A.D. Heedless of... read more

Campaign for Human Development Collection – November 23 and 24 – Just Say No!

09/16/2019 at 4:05 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
PETITION: Bishops, please stop funding organizations which promote abortion, contraception, homosexuality and Marxism Since its inception, the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) (the official anti-poverty program of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops) has been a cause... read more

Abuse on the Margins

09/03/2019 at 4:35 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
By Stephen P. White, August 29, 2019 Sexual abuse is a plague no matter where it occurs or to whom. But one of the underexplored facets of the clerical sexual abuse crisis in the United States is the way in which marginalized and minority communities have proven particularly susceptible both to... read more

Bishop urges fellow U.S. bishops to hold errant ‘Catholic’ politicians accountable

06/13/2019 at 4:09 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
By Doug Mainwaring BALTIMORE, Maryland, June 12, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — When Bishop Joseph Strickland addressed the urgent need to challenge politicians who claim to be Catholic but whose voting record and rhetoric remain at odds with Church teaching on the sanctity of life, his statement was... read more

BREAKING: Kansas Supreme Court finds unfettered right to abortion in state constitution

04/29/2019 at 10:22 AM By Kevin Edward White
By Dorothy Cummings McLean, LifeSite News, April 26, 2019 The Kansas Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling against a ban on dismemberment abortion today, arguing that a right to abortion exists in the state constitution. According to National Public Radio (NPR), “The landmark ruling... read more

On Jordan Peterson’s Revoked Fellowship to Cambridge Divinity School

03/29/2019 at 12:36 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Scott Ventureyra, Crisis Magazine, March 27, 2019 Last week, Jordan Peterson, who is currently the world’s top public intellectual, had his fellowship offer to the University of Cambridge revoked. On March 20, Cambridge’s Faculty of Divinity issued the following statement on Twitter:... read more

The Church’s Consistent Teaching on Life

01/22/2019 at 8:55 AM By Mary Anne Hackett
By Francis Cardinal George While everyone could be expected to know the Church’s position on the immorality of abortion and the role of law in protecting unborn children, it seems some profess not to know it and others, even in the Church, dispute it. Since this teaching is consistently being... read more

What Catholic Social Teaching Tells Us About Affirmative Action

01/09/2019 at 4:24 PM By Mary Anne Hackett

The Embezzling Nuns From the Order That Helped Train Obama

12/16/2018 at 9:17 PM By Mary Anne Hackett

Three Cheers for Inequality

06/03/2018 at 3:14 PM By Mary Anne Hackett

A Primer on Communism for Fellow Traveler Bishop Sorondo

05/25/2018 at 11:03 AM By Mary Anne Hackett

There’s no ‘bridge’ between modernism and faithful Catholicism

04/20/2018 at 9:15 AM By Mary Anne Hackett

Students At Over 200 Schools Organize Pro-Life Walkout

04/11/2018 at 4:13 PM By Mary Anne Hackett

Vatican’s Relief Agency Sits on Governing Body of Contraception-Promoting Organization

03/26/2018 at 3:50 PM By Mary Anne Hackett

Boy Scout With Down Syndrome and Autism Stripped of His Badges

03/21/2018 at 10:49 PM By Mary Anne Hackett

Why The Pro-Life Movement Will Live Long and Prosper

01/23/2018 at 8:45 PM By Kevin Edward White