by Dr. Luke Arredondo | Oct 22, 2020 | CET: Commentary
Yesterday, Catholic and secular news outlets were reporting on a new documentary featuring Pope Francis, titled “Francesco” which has yet to appear in North America, but made its Vatican premier on Wednesday. The primary reason there has been so much discussion about...
by Bishop Joseph E. Strickland | Sep 5, 2020 | CET: Commentary
One of the experiences which accompanied the COVID 19 Shelter at Home Orders was that all parents became “home school” parents. But, in a sense, all parents already WERE “home school parents”. Some simply choose to share that educational mission with others outside of...
by Bishop Joseph E. Strickland | Sep 5, 2020 | CET: Commentary
In our consideration of morally coherent Catholic citizenship we have considered the fundamental Right to Life and the Right to Religious Freedom. Now, we turn to the urgent challenge of defending the first and most vital cell of society, marriage, and the family and...
by Bishop Joseph E. Strickland | Sep 5, 2020 | CET: Commentary
In his World Peace Day message for 1988, Pope St John Paul II said: “Religious freedom, an essential requirement of the dignity of every person, is a cornerstone of the structure of human rights, and for this reason an irreplaceable factor in the good...
by Bishop Joseph E. Strickland | Sep 5, 2020 | CET: Commentary
The most important foundational teaching and principle of Catholic Social Teaching is that every human life is sacred from conception to natural death, because every man and woman is created in the Image of God. Further, there is a fundamental Right to Life,...
by Bishop Joseph E. Strickland | Sep 5, 2020 | CET: Commentary
As your bishop, I plan to offer a series of brief articles that I pray will be helpful to all of us as we approach the 2020 national, state, and local elections in November. Let me be clear, I have no intention of publicly endorsing any specific party or any...