Each year as Labor Day approaches, we members of the commentariat stalk newspaper headlines for reports of strikes or union organizing campaigns like...
Peace & Justice
My friend in Buffalo wrote me on the day an 18-year-old murdered 10 people at a small supermarket there. She was heartsick and shaken at the violence but also...
Who can forget George Bailey’s showdown with Mr. Potter, the infamously grumpy slumlord of Bedford Falls, in the film It’s a Wonderful Life? Pointing out that...
What should a post-COVID-19 world look like? Pope Francis has been thinking about this question for quite a long time—from very early on, in fact. Almost two...
Historian Shannen Dee Williams had never seen a Black nun until she stumbled across a 1968 news story about the founding of the National Black Sisters’...
Marcia Lane-McGee Confronting racism in the Catholic Church and recognizing our diversity should be joyful work, say Marcia Lane-McGee and Shannon Wimp Schmidt...
I was probably in my mid-20s when I first discovered the joy of sushi. My favorite morsel quickly became unagi, no doubt overcoming strong inhibitions at the...
On June 21, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed Roe v. Wade, declaring, in Justice Samuel Alito’s 78-page opinion, that the U.S. Constitution does not...
There is something unsettling, maybe even foreboding, about the narrow door passage from Luke’s gospel. When Jesus instructs us, “Strive to enter through the...
As the oldest child in a large, conservative Catholic family, I was raised to believe that my purpose as a woman was to become a wife and mother. Caring for my...
