Roberto Rivera, Author at Catholic Herald

Roberto Rivera

If Only Americans Thought Like Catholics

May 27, 2021

A man embraces his wife and daughter after crossing the Rio Grande near the border between Mexico and the United States in Del Rio, Texas. (Sergio Flores/AFP via Getty Images) While people debate whether the United States has been a “Christian nation,” no one has ever claimed it has been a Catholic one. If

Depression, Lent, and Easter

March 29, 2021

The disciplines of Lent feel different to the depressed than the happy

The Pro-Life Movement Goes Cheap

February 03, 2021

Any resemblance between the ends of Catholic social teaching and the priorities of the existing pro-life movement is imaginary. Nowhere is this disjunction clearer than in the pro-life movement’s regard — or lack thereof — of the intellectually and developmentally disabled.

The Unkept Promise Leads to Death

December 13, 2020

While Dr. Anthony Fauci recently said that “we could start getting things back to relative normal” by next spring or summer if enough people get vaccinated, some aspects of “normal” probably will not survive. One of these are the political and moral arguments against a legal right to physician-assisted suicide. Then-California governor Jerry Brown summed

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