Work is part of how we participate in God’s creation. The church teaches that human labor should be compensated with a just wage; that is, workers should...
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Americans have always struggled with work: seeking just wages, securing equal rights, and balancing time for family with the necessary demands of supporting...
The story should seem familiar. The church was protecting members of the clergy who had committed crimes, shielding priests from the justice of the state. We...
For decades a friend’s dad took his cars to a mechanic who had started a Ph.D. but ended up hanging out his shingle working on cars. Most adults in our...
Last week I attended a volunteer orientation at a center for youth experiencing homelessness. The program director noted early on that many of the youth who...
“Without a vision, the people perish” (Prov. 29:18). This biblical wisdom comes to mind as I ponder the state of our nation. I write this reflection in the...
This summer the revelations of past assault on children and harassment committed by Cardinal Theodore McCarrick roiled the U.S. church. Other exposés of abuses...
The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border by Francisco Cantú (Riverhead Books, 2018) It’s become almost cliché in books and films that the...
Seated in a circle on sofas and easy chairs at a church rectory in a largely Hispanic section of South Bend, Indiana, a group of students from Notre Dame...
Toss a family onto a deserted tropical island—or, say, an uncharted planet in outer space—and see what happens when all social and cultural conventions and...
