When someone names their dog after a saint, you know their faith is an important part of who they are. “I’m a Third Order Dominican working among Jesuits. The...
Higher education
Explore U.S. Catholic articles on higher education—coverage of Catholic colleges, universities, and the role of faith in academic life.
Ecologist Reuben Keller knows that caring for the planet requires thinking beyond the environmental sciences. Trek up to Reuben Keller’s Chicago office, and...
Universities regularly teach ethics across their curriculum and in graduate courses at professional schools, but as James Keenan writes, the university itself...
“Tolerance” is for menial things like mosquitoes and traffic jams. When it comes to other human beings, let’s seek more. Take a moment to think about the...
When it comes to sex, no means no. That’s just common sense. Or is it? Flip the question for a second: What means yes? Does getting undressed mean yes...
On April 4, 1968—the day Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated—Norman Francis was in Philadelphia meeting with leaders of the Sisters of the Blessed...
The Hebrew word for the poor is anawim, which in the Hebrew Bible literally means “little breaths.” Thinking of the poor as “little breaths” calls attention as...
Recently, the United States Supreme Court decided that an amendment in Michigan’s state constitution banning the use of affirmative action at public...
When Susan Ross first broke into the world of academia as a Catholic theologian, she was one of the few women in what had traditionally been a male-dominated...
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...
