Americans have a high tolerance for violence. Many concur with the death penalty for heinous crimes. Many support military intervention in foreign lands...
War and peace
Explore U.S. Catholic articles on war and peace—analysis, reflections, and stories on reconciliation, peacebuilding, and Catholic social teaching.
Our best shot at protecting the common good isn’t to keep loading up on guns. A few weeks before Adam Lanza began his shooting rampage among children in...
We can’t afford to lose our children to the ravages of war. Surely the hardest faces to look upon during armed conflict are those of terrified or wounded...
Can an ambassador’s death be the seed of a better future? The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church. So what happens when the martyr whose blood is...
It’s an uphill battle for returning veterans as they look for support from their church and their community. For more on support for vets, read On the...
At age 85, Jean Gump was released from prison after being arrested and jailed with 12 other protesters. They were caught trespassing at an off-limits federal...
Fifty years after the game-changing Second Vatican Council a new generation helps the church respond to today’s signs of the times. Father Kenneth Himes, O.F.M...
The world needs a wake-up call to save a population at risk of meeting a violent end. What is happening today in the Nuba mountains is exactly a carbon copy of...
We shouldn’t let sensationalized crime become an occasion of sin. I once heard a bishop explain to confirmation candidates what it means to, in the words of...
For Catholic millennials the past decade of war has mostly remained out of sight and out of mind. Caleb is a 22-year-old Navy veteran who headed to boot camp...
