Respect Life. We see it all around us, often as a kind of slogan. The phrase appears on bumper stickers, billboards, march signs, and the like.

Yikes! From Dawkins’ perspective, theology is not something worth taking seriously enough to even include it as a worthwhile endeavor of human rational inquiry. I profoundly disagree with him.

Freedom seems to be the ground on which many of us stand. We hear the word on the lips of believers and atheists, liberals and conservatives, men and women alike. But when we actually take a closer look, we come to find that freedom seems to mean radically different things to different people.

Catholic morality is utterly rooted in the reality of our relationship with God the Father in the person of the Word, his Son, nourished by the constant love and grace of the Holy Spirit.

Jesus’ gifts of grace and salvation are not offered to only those who are good but to those in need. St. Nicholas, following in Jesus’ footsteps gave without “making a list and checking it twice.”

The reading of the Gospel is the centerpiece of the Church's Liturgy of the Word. The Catechism of the Catholic Church calls them "the heart of all the Scriptures" (CCC 125). These four books are so central to our religion that we frequently refer to the faith as simply "the Gospel."