The name of God is mercy. The face of mercy is Jesus. This is the foundation for the Jubilee of Mercy. It also is a profound challenge. The face of Jesus, as...
Ministries
Jessie Dye is rarely at a loss for words. And that’s a good thing, because she’s part of a grassroots climate movement that has no time for silence. When she...
In Robert Lupton’s follow-up to his popular Toxic Charity, the author weighs the future of effective efforts to reduce poverty. Echoing themes of his previous...
The Pastoral Summit project, headed by Paul Wilkes, has been seeking out excellence among Catholic parishes and Protestant congregations since the late 1990s...
Pope Francis calls human trafficking “a crime against humanity.” In his December 2014 Declaration on the International Day for the Abolition of...
During my two weeks in Ghana, there was virtually no rain. In mid-July, the fields of Northern Ghana should already be teeming with corn, their second crop...
Any successful corporate leader will tell you that an organization needs to have sound business practices if it hopes to reach its goals. And while the...
By J. Peter Nixon This article appeared in the March 2005 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 70, No. 3, pages 24-28). He was six feet tall, with a blond crew cut and...
At age 54, when I had been a Catholic sister for 38 years, I met Courtney, a trans woman. This was, at that point in my life, a new experience. I immediately...
Working for a Better World By Carolyn Y. Woo (Our Sunday Visitor, 2015) When Carolyn Woo first came to the United States as a college freshman, she barely had...
