Two Catholic organizations issued statements in July urging against imposing a coronavirus vaccine mandate without conscience, religious or medical exemptions. In a poll of its members, the Catholic ...

Two years ago this month, as the COVID-19 virus spread uncontrollably through large swaths of the country, much of our society shut down. Church services were suspended. We all learned about ...

After Washington state announced a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for school employees, the Bishop of Spokane said that conscience rights should be respected, but that priests shouldn’t sign documents ...

We reported earlier on the president’s meeting with the Catholic press and his promise regarding conscience-clause protection. For his exact words on the subject, read on. “I think that the only ...

When we hear these words, most of us think of doctors and their moral obligation as medical professionals to provide care. However, these words are also important because of their effect on patients, ...

WASHINGTON (CNS) — The announcement of a new conscience protection rule May 2 protecting health care workers who object to abortion procedures on religious grounds was welcome news to U.S. Catholic ...

As part of the Markkula Center's yearlong series of talks on conscience, Ron Hamel, chief ethicist of the Catholic Health Association, discussed the role of conscience in Catholic health care. This is ...

The Last Letters of Thomas More, edited by Alvaro de Silva, Eerdmans, 2000, 208 pp.; $20 Five years after the beheading of Thomas More in 1535, his sometime royal friend and ultimate executioner ...

A portrait of George Floyd is seen in New York City during a protest against racial inequality June 8, 2020. (CNS photo/Shannon Stapleton, Reuters) In the lead-up to the 2024 presidential election, ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Missouri — The Catholic voter “bears responsibility for connecting the dots between what our faith teaches and which candidates will best serve the common good,” Bishop W. Shawn ...

Instead of bifurcating students’ experiences and creating silos for their learning, the framework and mission calls us to explore complex problems alongside shared universal truths—ideas that ...