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Stumbled across some bad news in USA Today. More and more people are choosing “no religion” these days, and a lot of them are former Catholics. Trinity College is coming out with a study today, titled “American Nones: Profile of the No Religion Population,” that finds 15 percent of Americans designate themselves as “no religion” [...]

There are a lot of resources out there for Catholics trying to better understand the health care reform debate. One that should be in the mix is the Bioethics Defense Fund, headed up by Nik Nikas, a local Catholic. The “BDF” is a bioethics law and policy organization whose mission is to provide innovative and [...]

(I learned about a blog post on Beliefnet.com through a Our Sunday Visitor blog post, so I thought I’d blog about it.) You can’t turn the television on these days without hearing something about health care (or so I’m told, I don’t own a television). It is dominating headlines, and by the look of things, [...]

Catholics interested in the Church’s work with immigrants don’t have to go to the border to learn more — they can go to St. Paul Parish Sept. 20. That’s where Jesuit Father Pete Neely will discuss the vital work of the Kino Border Initiative, a collaborative effort serving the physical and spiritual needs of the [...]

Catechetical Sunday is a time for Catholics to reflect on the role that we each play — catechist or not — in handing on the faith and witnessing the Gospel. It’s also a chance for parishes to recognize and sometimes commission catechists for the new religious education year. Mary Mirrione, coordinator of Catechesis of the [...]