When scandal looms, who are you going to call—Olivia Pope or Pope Francis? “Thank God it’s Thursday!” my television announces, and I find myself entranced by...
Catholic social teaching
As a Glenmary priest, I’ve lived in Appalachia for 40 years. I’ve found that understanding social justice issues concerning the area and its people...
Is your parish, school, or diocese planning a mission trip? Here are some recommendations to make it a better experience for all involved. If you’re planning...
Although a native New Yorker, I went to Boston to teach in 1991. In the mid-1990s, the sex abuse scandals in the church broke. One of the first lessons that we...
I have a friend who is a permanent deacon. He’s a former Marine, and though he is wonderfully kind, he can also turn on his military face and voice to let you...
A traditional Chinese proverb teaches that “women hold up half the sky.” Women also hold up half the church. This truth may have been on Pope Francis’ mind...
As the rich get richer, the growing inequality poses a wealth of problems. Last year Oxfam International released the results of its analysis of global wealth...
A little more than a year into his papacy, Pope Francis seems to be speaking loudest about economic injustice, alternatively denouncing “trickle-down”...
A woman I know quit her job as an administrator in student life at a Catholic university because she could no longer stomach what the church had to say about...
By Pope Francis (Loyola, 2014) At the time of Pope Francis’ election, few of the former Archbishop of Buenos Aires’ written works were easily...
