As 2024 concluded, the demolition of Gaza and its people continued unabated. After 15 months of violence, their suffering, normalized, faded into the...
Peace & Justice
The cliché of the young man in his mother’s basement spending hours playing video games has taken hold of our imagination, but sadly this cliché has real-world...
In an image painted by Father William Hart McNichols, Our Lady of Sorrows reaches out her arms to Alana Chen, a young LGBTQ+ woman who died by suicide in 2019...
Catholics are far from immune to xenophobia. Many white Catholics seemed unbothered by the racist attacks on Catholic Haitians of Springfield, Ohio, following...
During the final weeks of Kamala Harris’ unsuccessful run for the presidency, an attendee at a campaign event shared the struggle of balancing costly child...
Last April, my husband and I visited a prison in Globe, Arizona—a powerful experience that brought to life everything I had been working toward and learning...
Less than 24 hours after her cesarean section on April 30th at a government-run teaching hospital in Oron, a coastal community of Akwa Ibom in Nigeria, 24-year...
I am Catholic and a historian of Catholics—and over the past few years, I’ve become increasingly convinced that U.S. Catholics need a new account of ourselves...
As we head into 2025—a year that Pope Francis has declared a Jubilee year for the church—the United States faces a second Trump presidency, leaving many...
