“I have a right to vote!” is a common claim heard among citizens of the United States or any democracy. News media warn of voter suppression as some...
Peace & Justice
Reported stories and first-person essays about Catholic social teaching and how Catholics are living out the call to work for justice.
This summer, I joined hundreds of other Catholics in pro-life demonstrations around the White House. We were there to bear witness to the nation as faithful...
One of the most influential religious socialists in U.S. history was the devout Roman Catholic John Cort, who wrote the landmark 1988 book Christian Socialism...
Like many Christians, I have been a committed pro-life advocate all of my life. From childhood, I participated in the March for Life and various anti-abortion...
Two months before police murdered George Floyd in Minneapolis, Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old Black woman, was shot and killed in her own home by police...
Our nation is engaged in a winner-take-all culture war. As Michael Grunwald says, this essentially entails “the transformation of even nonpartisan issues into...
Though raised as an evangelical Protestant, I was first drawn to Catholicism when I encountered St. Augustine in an undergraduate philosophy course. Once I...
Across the nation, attacks against Asian Americans are on the rise. There have been stabbings in Texas, assaults in New York and San Francisco, and physical...
On June 19, 2019, Congress introduced a new bill: H.R. 40. The bill advocates for the creation of a commission to examine the possible payment of reparations...
A healing beatitude Blessed are you who are willing to engage in a sincere conversation about race.Blessed are you who embrace your Black sisters and brothers...
