Two weeks ago, Sister of Social Service Simone Campbell announced that she was stepping down from her post as executive director of NETWORK Lobby, a role she...
Activism
For decades, Catholic Relief Services CRS) has been one of the world’s leading humanitarian aid agencies, serving and supporting vulnerable populations...
I have not been to Mass or any in-person prayer since March. My parish reopened with limited occupancy, but I do not feel comfortable attending any inside...
Political commentator Glenn Beck famously stated, “I beg you, look for the words social justice or economic justice on your church website. If you find [them]...
“You should probably sit down for this.” A teenage Sebastian Agignoae had stumbled across a confusing document from the United Nations High Commissioner for...
Eric Martin saw a problem. One day at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, weeks after torch-wielding neo-Nazis marched through campus and an enraged...
The photograph is iconic, reproduced in magazines, websites, and blogs. An elderly woman, physically frail but with a stubborn facial expression, sits cross...
I’ll never forget the time hope showed up sporting a pair of geriatric shoes. She stood slightly hunched over on a trail of asphalt one gray evening. To her...
Seated in a circle on sofas and easy chairs at a church rectory in a largely Hispanic section of South Bend, Indiana, a group of students from Notre Dame...
In the spring of 2008, a visitor to the small town of Postville, Iowa might have been surprised at what she found. In a region populated mostly by descendants...
