Our government's use of torture puts being both American and Catholic in serious conflict, says this theologian. Theological research doesn't often...
Politics
Discover how Catholic social teaching and politics intersect and how Catholics engage political issues through advocacy, education, and actions guided by faith and social teaching.
Politics as usual doesn't inspire hope for one Catholic grandfather. Candidates ought to answer the tough questions about who they are, he says. On...
American birthright citizenship is downright Constitutional. The birther movement is at it again. No, I’m not talking about the fringe group that...
A little counseling might help get the Israel-U.S. partnership back on track. Every relationship can have its rocky patches. Plenty of marriages that have...
Let's keep Uncle Sam out of the nativity scene by reinforcing the wall between church and state. Our varied beliefs can bring us together to feed the...
Could ending our adoration of oil be the key to a peaceful future? Has the idea of American exceptionalism finally run its historical course in the big muddy...
High-tech warfare administers death from a great distance. We heard a lot over the early years of the late (once and future?) War on Terror about weapons of...
The election of an African American president has stirred excitement, but a leading black theologian says visions of a “postracial” America are...
It's time for Uncle Sam to call a credit counselor. April is the cruelest month, T.S. Eliot famously wrote. I'm guessing Eliot penned that line...
Catholic charities struggle to help families meet basic needs. “Here in San Jose, there’s a street that they call the ‘empty street’...
