I shifted nervously in my seat as the interviewer scanned my résumé. A newly minted graduate, I began to make my case as to why I’d be the best pick for the...
Peace & Justice
Reported stories and first-person essays about Catholic social teaching and how Catholics are living out the call to work for justice.
Sitting in a jail cell in the mid-1980s, I hit rock bottom. In those years I steered away from previous thoughts of becoming a lawyer or professor. Instead, I...
I found myself incredibly angry in 2020. It seemed to be the year where all the tension inside me, all the injustice around me, all the indifference I was...
Having grown up in a terribly emotionally and often physically abusive family, I had two refuges. One was the woods and waters surrounding Theodore Roosevelt’s...
“I attended Mother McAuley as a white student from Mount Greenwood. Issues surrounding race didn’t affect me. Today, I have Hispanic daughters who attend...
In 2010 a series of deaths by suicide began in the interior Alaskan villages surrounding Tanana, a community of approximately 200 people, most of whom are...
In 2016 Pope Francis made headlines when he answered a journalist’s question with a pointed reply: “It is not right to identify Islam with violence. This is...
On December 2, 1990, soldiers murdered or wounded three dozen unarmed Tz’utujil Indians in Santiago Atitlán, a picturesque, mostly indigenous town of about...
Even during the early months of the pandemic, many called the global outbreak of COVID-19 an apocalyptic event. This was not only in the sense that it was a...
When a young woman in an Alabama parish heard that the Jesuits of St. Louis were organizing a solidarity stand vigil, she was inspired to arrange something...
