I will never forget the deep joy I felt while I was a student at the University of Notre Dame, when four young women from Nigeria celebrated their graduation...
Peace & Justice
Reported stories and first-person essays about Catholic social teaching and how Catholics are living out the call to work for justice.
In the West Bank city of Bethlehem, Palestinian children are using a small piece of land as a soccer field. The location—against a looming wall that separates...
At a time when calls for peace are met with political hostility, the words of Pope Leo XIV resound with particular urgency. During the prayer vigil...
For many people who use artificial intelligence, it is easy to ignore the reality of where this technology physically lives: data centers. These massive...
I grew up in a Christian tradition that regularly talked about extreme heat, but it was always about hell. You didn’t want to go to hell, because hell was hot...
When Gretchen Jezerc learned of ICE raids ramping up in her hometown of Pittsburgh, she knew she had to do something. Along with thousands of others, she...
On Divine Mercy Sunday, April 12, Bishop Steven Biegler of Cheyenne, Wyoming published a pastoral letter on migration called “Be a Merciful Neighbor” in...
On April 13 to 14, Yom HaShoah—Holocaust Remembrance Day—we remember both the immense human loss and the fragile, defiant humanity that persisted despite it...
In Orlando, Florida, in 2012, a wife and husband cultivated a healthy vegetable garden in their front yard. But the city of Orlando fined and prohibited them...
