Pat McCloskey, OFM

How can good Catholics respond to people who question our beliefs or openly reject our Catholic faith?

I realize that the Catholic Church teaches that it is permissible to discontinue extraordinary measures when someone is dying. My sister, who was in a nursing home, had heart failure and decided to stop eating. She was cognizant. They were going to start hospice care, but she died before that could happen. What was the right thing to do in this case?

Why is the tabernacle not always on the main altar? Placing it elsewhere seems to show a lack of reverence.

Our faith teaches that peace overrides force. In the Old Testament, however, there are passages that describe how God cleared a path for the Hebrew people through war and displacement of other people and cultures. Isn’t that a contradiction?