Catholic teaching

Liturgical living encourages Catholics to follow the rhythms of the Church year at home.

The “Faithful Citizenship” document is meant to give Catholic voters an opportunity to reflect upon how their faith intersects with their political and civic responsibilities.

Trained in sciences, a Jesuit brother and Benedictine abbot discuss how science has been a part of faith and how the two complement one another.

Catholic teaching obliges us to use ordinary means to preserve our life and health, that we might make our days count.

Chicago Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, speaking during an Aug. 2 panel discussion, described how Catholic teaching on the death penalty has developed and stressed that putting people to death — even criminals who are certainly guilty of terrible acts — makes it seem that the God-given right to life is conditional.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church states that “the education of the conscience is a lifelong task.” What does it mean to pray for “conscience”? Isn’t a conscience simply what all of us have, that is, a working conscience that somehow lets us know what is right and what is wrong?