In Louisville, Kentucky, my hometown, there is a lifesaving parish called St. William. Every week, the single Sunday liturgy in the modest church building in...
Encyclicals
Discover the history and modern relevance of papal encyclicals, from classic teachings to current applications in Catholic life.
“We are Catholics, but if any of you want to found another church you are free to go.” Pope Francis was responding to a religious woman’s question at the May...
For Catholics, the summer of 2018 was dominated by the Pennsylvania grand jury report and revelations about Theodore McCarrick. As the summer of 2019 begins, I...
Americans have always struggled with work: seeking just wages, securing equal rights, and balancing time for family with the necessary demands of supporting...
No is a word we should use more often. Perhaps the most difficult no I ever pronounced happened while I was in the U.S. Navy, stationed in Washington, D.C. I...
St. John Paul II, while visiting Hiroshima, Japan—a city where more than 80,000 lives evaporated in an instant—said in February 1981, “To remember Hiroshima is...
It’s been almost a year since the June 2015 publication of Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si’ (On Care for Our Common Home) and, in that time, Pope Francis’...
Catholic sisters have always responded to the pressing need of the historical moment, whether for hospitals, orphanages, and schools, or for peace, justice...
Nairobi, Kenya is a unique and complicated city. A cosmopolitan mixture of traditions and peoples, humans and animals exist in a delicate relationship. Just...
The progress of the Industrial Revolution came with a steep price: the horrible excess of human wreckage. Be it death or dismemberment in factory work, chronic...
