On Chicago’s far south side in the early 1930s, as the Great Depression was hitting the many steel mill laborers in his parish, Father James Tort started...
Author - Cassidy Klein
For many Black Catholic communities in the United States, Pope Francis’ life and legacy, as someone who lived out an ethic of “all are welcome,” is “exactly...
St. Toribio Romo Over the past 30 years or so, several Mexican and American newspapers have reported cases of undocumented immigrants surviving the journey...
In an image painted by Father William Hart McNichols, Our Lady of Sorrows reaches out her arms to Alana Chen, a young LGBTQ+ woman who died by suicide in 2019...
As we head into 2025—a year that Pope Francis has declared a Jubilee year for the church—the United States faces a second Trump presidency, leaving many...
For Mary Novak, being the first lay executive director of NETWORK, a social justice lobby of Catholic sisters founded in 1972, is an “integrating role at this...
On August 12, 2017, in Charlottesville, Virginia, right-wing hate groups gathered for a “Unite the Right” rally that turned violent and deadly. Present at the...
More than two years have passed since Roe v. Wade was overturned in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health decision, in which the Supreme Court justices ruled...
Growing up, Rozella Apel-Hernández had dozens of nonbiological aunts and uncles. Apel-Hernández, now 24, was born and raised at Beatitude House Catholic Worker...
