Author - Nicholas Hayes-Mota

Nicholas Hayes-Mota is an assistant professor of social and theological ethics at Santa Clara University. A scholar of Catholic social thought, he has also been a practitioner of faith-based community organizing for 14 years.

Pope Francis waves at crowds - U.S. Catholic

Pope Francis, who called church to peripheries, dies at 88

Nicholas Hayes-Mota

We need to reclaim the legacy of Christian nonviolence

Nicholas Hayes-Mota

For centuries, a consistent commitment to nonviolence was, at best, a marginal position within the Catholic Church. Rather than rejecting violence outright...