Putting the 'Care' Back in Health Care

Supreme Knight Carl Anderson offers insight into the faulty reasoning at play in the country's health care debate: "Human life today is traded for a better future tomorrow, a future made even more tenuous by the loss of those lives necessary to sustain society's future growth." Read More

Weighing the Moral Issues in the Health Care Debate

Pia de Solenni argues that, beyond the issue of abortion coverage, there are other moral criteria that shape the Catholic Church's support of healthcare legislation. Read More

U.S. Bishops Oppose Senate Health Care Bill, Doubt Promised Fixes

In a statement on Monday, Cardinal Francis George said that the U.S. bishops are now opposing the current Senate health care bill because the cost “is too high” and “the loss too great.” Read More

Chile to Celebrate ‘Churchless’ Holy Week After Earthquake

Following the February 27th earthquake, nearly 90 percent of Chile’s churches were damaged or destroyed.“We need around $16 million to begin the work of reconstruction,” says Father Jose Miguel Ortiz of the Diocese of Rancagua. Read More

World Youth Day Turns 25

In his message for the 25th anniversary of World Youth Day, Pope Benedict offers a meditation on Mark's account of Christ's meeting with a young man, one that expresses Jesus' great attention to youth. Read More

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Father Dominic Legge, OP, is a Dominican priest teaching theology at Providence College in Rhode Island. Before he became a Dominican, he worked on constitutional issues as a lawyer for the U.S. Department of Justice. Father Legge writes on theology and liturgy in the daily lives of contemporary Catholics.

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