Since his return to office a year ago, President Donald Trump has devoted a lot of energy to reversing initiatives favored by his predecessor, Joe Biden...
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 Augustine’s time, after a period of persecution against the church, a sect of Catholics known as Donatists held a grudge against the Catholics who had...
This past October, outside Chicago’s Broadview Detention Center, federal agents struck Presbyterian pastor David Black seven times in the head and upper body...
When we think of the saints, we may picture peaceful souls lost in prayer, far from political turmoil. In fact, however, many of the holiest people in...
Written during and after the sack of Rome, the empire that was supposed to last forever, St. Augustine’s City of God is based on a fundamental idea about how...
O little town of Bethlehem,how still we see thee lie!Above thy deep and dreamless sleepthe silent stars go by. Missing from the famous carol’s description are...
A quick survey of headlines offers any number of reasons not to be cheerful this Christmas: A president and a White House deputy who appear to not like America...
In August 410, Visigoths seized the city of Rome, the Eternal City, sacking it over the course of three days. This event stunned the world, prompting St...
Since September 2025, the United States has been authorizing drone strikes on people operating small boats from Venezuela and Colombia. These strikes have...
Your favorite pair of jeans—especially if they’re Calvin Klein, Levi’s, or Wranglers—may have been made in Lesotho. A small country surrounded by South Africa...
