Editors’ note: Sounding Board is one person’s take on a many-sided subject and does not necessarily reflect the opinions of U.S. Catholic, its editors...
Author - Heather Grennan Gary
U.S. marriage rates are dropping, while the approval ratings of cohabitation and childbearing before marriage are climbing. Young adult Catholics don’t...
Careers, children, cohabitation—this isn’t your parents’ path to the altar. Emily Barnak remembers a term that one of her cousins devised years ago to refer to...
Catholics can learn a thing or two from our evangelical sisters and brothers. On a Thursday night last September, Scott Sroda found himself at Primetime, a...
For graduates of peace studies programs at Catholic Universities, the career track can lead to all kinds of interesting places. In her first job out of...
For Heidi Tousignant, the faith-formation director from Minnesota, having studied peace in college relates directly to some of her most important-and unpaid...
Tona Boyd graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 2003 with majors in government and Spanish and a peace studies minor. During her junior year she...
Many recent peace studies graduates, like Erin Hivner, spend a year or two volunteering with programs such as the Peace Corps, AmeriCorps, Catholic Relief...
Want to learn more about peace studies? Here are some resources recommended by people interviewed in Will work for Peace. Publications: Bitter Fruit: The Story...
The first Catholic college to launch a peace studies program was Manhattan College in New York, which opened its Pacem in Terris Institute in 1965, offered its...
