Want to visit the most peaceful country in the world this winter? Well, bundle up: You’re on your way to Iceland. That frigid state is the world’s peace leader...
War and peace
Earlier this year, Lily,* a Catholic doctoral student at a Midwestern college, was looking out the window of their library, intently watching the Catholic...
With nearly one-third of Americans owning a firearm, the United States ranks first in per capita gun ownership. According to Pew Research, protection is the...
On May 2, Notre Dame students gathered on a lawn on the university’s campus to call for a ceasefire in Gaza. Palestinian student Daniel Bannoura publicly...
Mike Martin is the founder and executive director of RAWtools. “They shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall...
Sounding Board is one person’s take on a many-sided subject and does not necessarily reflect the opinions of U.S. Catholic, its editors, or the Claretians...
For centuries, a consistent commitment to nonviolence was, at best, a marginal position within the Catholic Church. Rather than rejecting violence outright...
Israel’s total war on the Palestinian people of Gaza, initiated in response to a terrorist raid by Hamas militants, began its fifth month in February. By then...
Any journalist writing about the Israel-Hamas conflict should do so with humility. So let me state up front: I am not a Middle East expert, nor am I a...
This essay is also available to listen to as an audio recording. Shortly before the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, I traveled to Israel-Palestine as part...
