The Catholic Church’s teachings on ‘just war’ have guided leaders’ long history of opposing many military interventions.
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Mainstream medical organizations have criticized ‘restorative reproductive medicine,’ but some Catholics who follow church teachings consider it a welcome alternative.
The Catholic Church treats information shared during confession as absolutely confidential – but that requirement can create legal dilemmas.
Catholic opposition to the death penalty is relatively new in the church’s history, but has helped shape public debate.
Over the past century, Catholic leaders have wrestled with how much to embrace new forms of communication technology.
Communion is the central act of Catholic worship. So why are some US bishops trying to stop President Joe Biden – a devout Catholic – from partaking?
Using Catholic doctrine to fire LGBTQ teachers and discriminate against queer students in Catholic schools violates the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
While many American Catholics believe demons and exorcism to be part of a distant past, an expert explains how beliefs that sexual desires could be part of demonic temptation still persist.
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Professor, Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary
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Director of Catholic Peacebuilding Studies, University of Notre Dame
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William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science, Amherst College
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Gudorf Chair in Catholic Intellectual Traditions, University of Dayton