For many, 2021 has been a year of emerging from the unexpected conditions of the pandemic. Nearly everyone has a vivid experience of reconnecting, of taking...
Salt and Light
“Why are people so mean?” asked my friend’s first grader last summer as we tried to explain what happened to George Floyd. As my friend’s children learned the...
In February, the Pew Research Center published the most comprehensive survey to date of Black faith in America. This report is a major resource for...
Modern Catholic social thought is typically dated back to Pope Leo XIII’s 1891 encyclical Rerum Novarum (On Capital and Labor). It’s not that Catholicism had...
Researching COVID-19, scientists used a human cell line called “HeLa” to isolate and identify how the virus infects human cells. HeLa cells reveal both the...
I write this in the month of January, at the turn of the calendar and the beginning of a new year. When you read this, we will be in the beginnings of new...
Recently, my wife and I watched the much-discussed Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma. It features a parade of Silicon Valley insiders making confessions...
My great-grandmother’s house was full of mysteries. Full of secret rooms and eclectic memorabilia, the house always felt a bit like a treasure hunt. In...
Of all the homilies I have preached, the one that aroused some of the most impassioned objections was one I gave on the Epiphany. I wondered aloud about the...
American society is in part founded on the idea that, while we have differences and disagreements, we can find ways of living together peacefully. But this...