Returning after an unprecedented visit with refugees on the Greek island of Lesbos in April last year, Pope Francis startled the world by bringing 12 Syrian...
Catholic Voices
Ready or not, 2017 could prove to be the year of unanticipated subsidiarity—the idea that social needs should be addressed at the lowest level of personal...
A few days after Election Day, I met with a dear friend who was struggling with unexpected anger after the election of Donald Trump. “I think of myself as a...
The United States is experiencing an unprecedented oil and natural gas rush, but this rush is less about finding untapped reserves of these fossil fuels and...
On June 17, 2015, a 21-year-old white man, Dylann Roof, killed nine black people as they said prayers, sang hymns, and studied the Bible in a Charleston, South...
It begins with light sensitivity and a sudden inability to focus. Is there a storm coming? Did I get enough sleep the night before? These questions are futile...
Iraqi military, backed by U.S. airpower and a scattering of U.S. boots on the ground, were tightening their grip around Mosul as autumn began in the Western...
Recently, Fordham University sponsored an interfaith prayer service for racial justice. The catalysts for this event were the ongoing police-involved killings...
Pope Francis took major steps to offer some practical and spiritual sustenance to the idea of “integral development” that he promoted in his encyclical Laudato...
The first glimpse of sunrise in the United States each day comes atop Cadillac Mountain in Acadia National Park in Maine. From the highest point on the East...
