Tucked into eight acres on Long Island’s Shinnecock Bay, St. Joseph’s Villa has been a place of respite and retreat since 1960, tended by the Sisters of St...
Indigenous peoples
“Until the lion tells the story, the hunter will always be the hero,” says an African proverb. It’s time that Indigenous Americans told their own stories—and...
At an Apache sacred site in Arizona, Chi’chil Bildagoteel—known in English as Oak Flat—Catholic sisters joined Apache elders and youth this year, on July 18...
Sugarcane Directed by Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie (National Geographic, 2024) Searching for clues about a past long buried, Charlene Belleau plumbs...
Growing up in Texas, I often had a stash of Mexican pesos on hand from our recurrent trips across the border. I frequently fiddled with the bills and, raised...
In 1550, two Spanish priests were engaged in a heated public debate on a topic of significant moral importance: the rights of Indigenous peoples. Could the...
Many of us have heard the saying that “slavery is America’s original sin.” Robert P. Jones, president and founder of the Public Religion Research Institute...
Growing up with a Mexican Catholic mother and a Navajo father, Teresa Rojo Tsosie says she always felt her Catholic faith and native traditions were...
Seventeen young men and two little girls in Teotitlán del Valle, a small Zapotec pueblo in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, have made what’s called a promesa (a...
Jawanza Eric Clark is an author and associate professor of religious studies at Manhattan College. White Christians’ approach to solving the ecological crisis...
