Margin Notes

Discover Margin Notes columns on economic justice and current events, offering thoughtful reflections for Catholics engaging the world.

Death takes a holiday

But the question is whether executions will take a permanent vacation in the United States. Something didn't happen in October that you may not have...

Hot enough for you?

The world's poor face an even bleaker future than polar bears, thanks to global warming.   Global warming has proved one of the rare issues capable of...

Womb for rent

Have infertile couples taken a maternity leave of their senses? Beginning in the mid-1970s, Americans watched generations of manufacturing jobs outsourced...

Home sweet biohazard

There's no place like home, as long as parents prevent it from becoming toxic. Thoroughly modern parents of the late 20th century might have cracked open a...