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...
War and peace
Explore U.S. Catholic articles on war and peace—analysis, reflections, and stories on reconciliation, peacebuilding, and Catholic social teaching.
MJ Park remembers, as a young Catholic, attending marches and rallies calling for fair housing, equal rights, and other social justice causes. Such causes were...
As a classicist, I was privileged to lead groups of Americans on tours of Rome. When we visited the Colosseum, our participants would inevitably comment on the...
Sixty years ago this month, during a commencement address at American University, a youthful President John F. Kennedy unveiled a strategy for peace during a...
Today, as a middle-aged journalist who covers news in the Catholic Church, I often work from a comfortable home office. But 25 years ago, I was a 21-year-old U...
The Sunday Angelus is usually an opportunity for Pope Francis to reflect on the gospel of the day, but the first Sunday in October came just a few days after...
Listen on: Apple | Google | Spotify For the first few centuries of the church, Christians were pacifists. Jesus’ teachings about turning the other cheek...
Dozens of Ukrainians were feared dead Sunday after a Russian bomb flattened a school sheltering about 90 people in its basement. . . . The governor of Luhansk...
“In the last days it will be, God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men...
It will be easy on this anniversary of 9/11 to celebrate the courage of the people we came to know from that terrible day as the “first responders”—the...
