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...
War and peace
Explore U.S. Catholic articles on war and peace—analysis, reflections, and stories on reconciliation, peacebuilding, and Catholic social teaching.
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...
The names of the people mentioned in this essay have been changed to protect their privacy. In October 2011, I visited the Holy Land as a pilgrim. We stayed in...
There is a story in the Bible that we don’t hear in the Sunday readings or cited in papal documents. There’s no uplifting message of morality or liberation...
