Catholic Church

By Deacon Keith A. Fournier, The Stream - On this Labor Day weekend, we’re invited to honor human work and all human workers… As Christians, we know that our work has dignity because we’re created in the image and likeness of God. Our age has lost sight of the true dignity of work because we have lost sight of the dignity of the worker.

By Fr. Matthew Pittam, National Catholic Register - I was dismayed to read this week about a Catholic school in California which has removed religious statues from its buildings and grounds because of concerns that they were off putting to prospective parents who are non-Catholic.

By Brad Miller, The Catholic Thing - The day after Labor Day marks the return to school of millions of American kids. This year, God be praised, it will also mark the return to school of Iraqi Christian children, who with their families are returning to the Nineveh plains to reclaim their homes and lives....

By Father Dwight Longenecker, EWTN - The English Reformation was a cultural revolution on the scale of Mao’s revolution in China. A 1,000-year-old culture was destroyed in a few short decades. The Catholic religion in England before Henry VIII’s reign was, for the most part, vital and strong. It was broken and bereft not out of a will to cleanse and reform, but out of royal greed, vanity and lust.