Rachel Swarns is a journalist, author, and associate professor of journalism at New York University. Around 1676, Ann Joice landed in the British colony of...
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Listen on: Apple | Google | Spotify For Immediate ReleaseAugust 28, 2023 WASHINGTON — The Just Politics podcast, a collaboration between NETWORK...
Seventeen young men and two little girls in Teotitlán del Valle, a small Zapotec pueblo in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, have made what’s called a promesa (a...
Playing God: American Catholic Bishops and the Far-Right By Mary Jo McConahay (Melville House, 2023) Some conservative Catholics like to disparage social...
Sometimes grace breaks through when you break a pattern or, in workplace parlance, when you “pivot.” In 2015, the nonprofit I worked for “pivoted” from funding...
In my years since becoming a parent, I’ve heard myself, not infrequently, repeating the aphorisms and one-liners that formed the soundtrack of my childhood...
On March 30, the Vatican announced its repudiation of the Doctrine of Discovery, a principle used to justify centuries of colonialism and oppression of...
Readings (Year A): Isaiah 22:19 – 23Psalms 138:1 – 2, 2 – 3, 6, 8Romans 11:33 – 36Matthew 16:13 – 20 Reflection: Who do I say...
In June the U.S. Supreme Court struck down what had been considered a sacrosanct civil rights achievement, ruling affirmative action programs at Harvard...
Soul Boom: Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution By Rainn Wilson (Hachette Go, 2023) Actor Rainn Wilson’s quarantine project was a book he says he’d been wanting...
