S: My young friend, Glaucon, how good to meet you here. How are your studies coming? Are you learning things that elevate the soul, which you might share with me?

The defense of the inalienable right-to-life is not the only moral principle involved in the health-care debate

National Addictions Awareness Week begins today (Nov. 18-24). Everybody -- informed or otherwise -- has an opinion on addiction and how to treat it, so the subject never fails to generate animated public debate.

Catholics dont oppose universality -- but what does that mean?

Ill admit that I wasnt going to see Michael Moores new movie Capitalism: A Love Story; but then a student of mine at the seminary drew my attention to a debate between Moore and the right-wing commentator Sean Hannity that was posted on YouTube.

The real choice in accepting or rejecting a child with special needs is between love and unlove; between courage and cowardice; between trust and fear. That's the choice we face when it happens in our personal experience. And that's the choice we face as a society in deciding which human lives we will treat as valuable, and which we will not.

Those vexing hearings over Robert Bork, for his nomination to the Supreme Court, back in 1987, left enduring marks.

We cannot be passive concerning health care policy in our country.

On this Labor Day 2009, it's a good idea to remind ourselves of our rich and tested tradition -- American and Catholic -- and what it is that all our labor is for.

This month the Holy Father prays that international attention towards the poorer countries may give rise to more concrete help, in particular to relieve them of the crushing burden of foreign debt.