Rather than introducing unprecedented ‘changes’ to the catechism, Pope Francis has simply pushed his predecessors’ intuitions to their logical conclusion
Sr. Helen Prejean talks about the pope’s action on capital punishment, the politics of the death penalty, and how Twitter can be used to build spiritual sustenance
The Catechism’s change on the inadmissibility of the death penalty furthers St. John Paul II’s teachings on recognizing the dignity of every human life
The U.S. bishops' 'Faithful Citizenship' has turned out to be irrelevant to the most pressing moral and practical questions raised by the 2016 presidential contest.
The Court’s threat is clear: If the manufacturers of midazolam decide to step aside, the states can always return to the firing squad or electric chair or gallows.
On the thirtieth anniversary of Joseph Bernardin's lecture on the consistent ethic of life, four contributors reflect on its meaning for today's church.
Thirty years later one wonders how many recall the debates the lecture engendered. It bears re-reading; the challenges it poses may be even more pressing now.
Day and a group of labor lawyers go to San Francisco's San Quentin prison to defend three innocent men convicted of the murder of an engineer on a cargo ship in 1936
