This column from the November 2001 issue in response to 9/11 comments that in the face of suffering we ought to seek a wisdom that can lead us out of the...
War and peace
The U.S. bishops issued their 1983 pastoral letter The Challenge of Peace without a total condemnation of nuclear arms but planned to revisit the issue after...
Iraqi Catholics risk their lives to join the priesthood and serve their own in a turbulent state. Father Daud Barber of the College of St. Ephram in Qaraqosh...
Grisly photos of U.S. soldiers spotlight the spiritual injuries our men and women in combat sustain in war, as well as their tragic results. In photographs of...
"They're speaking to every segment of any culture. They're giving hope to those that are under the heel. They're making those, like ourselves...
When I heard the news that four U.S. church women, including Jean Donovan, were raped and killed in El Salvador on Dec. 2, 1980, I was a senior at Duke...
Our government's use of torture puts being both American and Catholic in serious conflict, says this theologian. Theological research doesn't often...
The founder of the international lay movement of the Sant’Egidio Community explains how his group has been able to build peace, one conflict at a time. When...
President Obama wants to lock up nukes—but he isn’t about to throw away the key. The 2008 election of Barack Obama was arguably a culmination of the hope...
In 1967 U.S. Catholic editors call for a swift end to the Vietnam War. “It is our contention that the war in Vietnam is wrong, is unjust, is...
