Commentary

August 8, 2018

By Cardinal Blase J. Cupich

The right to life is not conditional

On Aug. 2, Pope Francis made news by revising the Catechism of the Catholic Church to say that capital punishment is “inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person.” This dignity persists, the revision continues, “even after the commission of very serious crimes.”

August 8, 2018

By Father Donald Senior, CP

Aug. 19: 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time

The Gospel for this Sunday continues to draw on the Bread of Life discourse from Chapter 6 of John’s Gospel. In fact, the opening line of this week’s passage repeats the closing line from last Sunday: “the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world.”

June 6, 2018

By Monsignor Michael Boland

New Tolton Peace Center

On May 24, Catholic Charities was honored to have Cardinal Cupich bless our newest service location, the Father Augustus Tolton Peace Center and the beautiful peace garden in the community of Austin. Catholic Charities was thrilled to be offered this space, which was a generous gift from Austin Bank of Chicago and enables us to bring a host of new programs and the promise of hope to an area challenged by violence, poverty, homelessness and unemployment.

August 8, 2018

By Michelle Martin

Rushing the season

I love back-to-school time. Really, I do. I always have, even when I was the one going back to school. New notebooks, new pencils, full bottles of glue. Boxes of markers where every color worked. New teachers, new groups of classmates, new material to learn.

July 25, 2018

By Bishop Robert Barron

What ‘Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom’ gets right and wrong

The original “Jurassic Park” film from 25 years ago rather inventively explored a theme that has been prominent in Western culture from the time of the Romantic reaction to the Enlightenment — namely, the dangers of an aggressive and arrogant rationalism.

July 25, 2018

By Father James F. Keenan, SJ

Sarajevo 2018

Sixteen years ago, my Boston College colleague Steve Pope was visiting Rome, where I was teaching at the Gregorian University. I offered to introduce him to some Roman moral theologians.

April 25, 2018

By Don Wycliff

Writing the script of our lives

I recently attended a workshop on trauma and emotional resilience in children for people who work in the child-welfare system. The keynote speaker kept coming back to one theme: Each of us must write the script of his or her own life.

July 11, 2018

By Kerry Alys Robinson

It is always possible

I have been caring for my closest friend, a Catholic priest, since he was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor in early January. Helping him absorb the implications of such difficult news, accompanying him to doctor’s appointments and treatment, and ensuring there is humor and hope, encouragement and empathy each day has been deeply meaningful and excruciatingly heartbreaking.

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