How to answer pro-choice arguments: Part 3 — Hard cases

By: Caitlin Shaughnessy Dwyer. This is the conclusion of a three-part series about a simple strategy that can help make difficult conversations about abortion a little easier. The strategy is centered on asking one simple question: “If you were convinced that the unborn child is a human life, would you still support abortion?” In Part […]

Serving at the altar grows youths’ relationship to the Eucharist

Maura Baker, Staff Writer St. Tarcisius, a Roman martyr celebrated as the patron saint of altar servers and as one of the first recorded instance of a youth fulfilling that role in the Church, held the special responsibility of carrying the Eucharist to the people. As the story goes, St. Tarcisius was a young acolyte charged to deliver […]

John Paul II

John Paul II and the Rhapsodic Theater

By David Cooley. The Church recently celebrated the feast day of Pope St. John Paul II on Oct. 22, which is the anniversary of the liturgical inauguration of his papacy in 1978. There is a story about John Paul II from when he was young man that I have always found inspiring. By the time […]