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...
Peace & Justice
Reported stories and first-person essays about Catholic social teaching and how Catholics are living out the call to work for justice.
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...
There are a lot of ways to measure a society and a country in decline. Economists like to track gross domestic product and national debt. Politicians and...
In this time of rising authoritarianism and political violence, Jeanné Lewis, the chief executive officer of Faith in Public Life, draws on the strength and...
Catholic popes have issued 240 encyclicals since 1854. The most prolific modern papal authors were those who had reigns of at least 25 years: John Paul II...
About 25 years ago, during the weekly Friday evening Mass in the living room of the Bishop Dingman House of the Des Moines Catholic Worker, a man entered from...
