Last week the Arizona state house and senate passed the most restrictive state measure against undocumented immigrants. Already the state has among the most...
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On Saturday, April 10, I was in the Teamsters Hall on Ashland Avenue in Chicago's near West Side, along with more than 1,000 others – mostly...
I had to laugh at this morning's front page headline of the Chicago Tribune, something like "Volcano costs $2 billion," which was accompanied by...
Fifteen years after the Oklahoma City bombing, we remember both the tragedy and the compassion that followed. By Guest Blogger María de Lourdes Ruiz...
Hans Kung has thrown down the gauntlet with his open letter to the world's Catholic bishops, including a six-point plan for reforming the church...
The old sister I was interviewing 23 (24?) years ago had worked with and for the poor for twice my lifetime. She had many stories to tell, but it didn't...
Chicago-area Episcopal priest George Smith offers this thoughtful and sympathetic reflection on the Roman Catholic priesthood and the current in a letter to...
The bishop of Greensberg, Pennsylvania, Bishop Lawrence E. Brandt, is not allowing the Sisters of St. Joseph of Baden, Pennsylvania to promote their...
When I first heard that Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens announced his retirement, my first reaction was, "Great, we can get another woman on the...
This afternoon, I was reading our interview with Jack Jezreel, founder of JustFaith Ministries, for our June issue. I was struck by how easily and fluidly...
