The trade in aborted baby-parts
How low can society go? When one considers the many ways countless human beings are treated like cheap disposable products...
Tony Magliano
The conversion of the Catholic priest who blessed atomic bomb crews
Last Thursday, August 6, marked the 70th anniversary of the single most destructive weapon ever unleashed upon human beings and...
Catholic Church leaders Applaud Nuclear Agreement with Iran
By Tony Magliano Committed to a negotiated settlement over the real possibility of armed conflict, six world powers and Iran...
20 years Since Another Great Encyclical
While Pope Francis’ new encyclical Laudato Si’Â is enjoying wide publicity, few people are aware this year also marks the 20th...
The Green Encyclical has Arrived!
It’s courageous, it’s prophetic, it’s challenging, it’s holistic, it’s wonderful: That’s what I think of Pope Francis’ environmental encyclical “Laudato...
The Hidden Poor of Appalachia
Back in the mid-1980s, I was working as a director of religious education at St. Peter’s Catholic Church in western...
The Baltimore Riots: What Happened?
“The God of peace is never glorified by human violence,” wrote the famous Trappist monk Thomas Merton. Whether it’s on...
The Courageous Witness of Blessed Oscar Romero
Who would have predicted it? Who would have imagined that on February 23, 1977, the day of his appointment as...
Your Words Can Feed Violence
According to the New York Times, during a White House luncheon in 1954 Winston Churchill said: “To jaw-jaw [talk-talk] always...
