At Pulse nightclub in Orlando on June 12, 2016, a gunman attacked the crowd, murdering 49 people and injuring dozens more. This month, as we mark 10 years...
Peace & Justice
Reported stories and first-person essays about Catholic social teaching and how Catholics are living out the call to work for justice.
The first time I heard the song “I Don’t Like Mondays” by Irish new wave band The Boomtown Rats, it was during an episode of The West Wing. The song is about a...
In May 2025, the newly elected Pope Leo XIV greeted the world with the words of the resurrected Jesus: “Peace be with you all!” Addressing “all people...
Angela Dodson with her late husband, Michael I. Days, who is also the coauthor of We’ve Been Here Before. Courtesy of Angela Dodson. When Angela P. Dodson and...
Few modern figures have been as universally respected and admired as Jane Goodall. Goodall was known first for being an anthropologist and primatologist...
Along the beach by the Mission Point Lighthouse facing the Grand Traverse Bay in northern Michigan, visitors’ shoes crunch over millions of shells that are on...
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...
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...
