Brian Burch

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Dear CV Friend, “It was just unsafe. I couldn't tell you how ridiculously unsafe it was.” That's what Jayne Mitchell-Werbrich told ABC 6 in Philadelphia. She couldn't work at a Planned P... More

Michael Brendan Dougherty writes about his experience growing up as the child of a single mother. His story highlights the ongoing struggle of all single mothers, the challenges of marriage and fam... More

Justin Bieber calls Sistine Chapel ‘Sixteenth Chapel’

Add this to the impoverished American pop culture evidence file. Or maybe it's just a transparent attempt to boost the CV blog traffic on a Friday afternoon. While hosting the teenage pop sin... More

Glenn Beck: We are all Catholics now

Love him or hate him, the clip below from Glenn Beck about his recent visit to the Vatican is both provocative and interesting. I'm not sure how much I make of the recent State Department listing of... More

[UPDATE] Unacceptable — former Vatican Ambassador, Prof. Robert George, others respond

[UPDATE: Over 118 national leaders (and counting), including university, college, seminary presidents, deans and board members, along with notable journalists, scholars and activists. Updated letter... More

America, welcome to the “Chicago way”

CatholicVote.org happens to be headquartered in Chicago, the windy city and the home of President Obama. In fact, the billion dollar re-election campaign offices for President Obama are just a few bl... More

Remembering September 11

The sobering memorials marking the tenth anniversary of September 11th will fill our televisions this weekend. A very humble and Christ-filled Protestant friend sent me this video today that is worth... More

St. John Fisher, Model of Courage

We've been remarking on the coincidence of the battle over marriage in New York reaching its crescendo today on the Feast of St. Thomas More. But lest we forget, June 22 also marks the feast of Sai... More

On Feast of St. Thomas More, let’s call and pray for marriage in New York

The vote in NY on so-called "same-sex marriage" is hanging by a thread... The official state legislative session expired at midnight Monday night -- but legislators (and Catholic governor Andrew Cu... More

CatholicVote members respond to the budget crisis and Medicare reform

Faithful Catholics often are stereotyped as caring about one or two issues at the expense of everything else. At one level they are right. Abortion and marriage are indeed foundational, and they will ... More