If 2017 was a year of protest—from the Women’s March to the People’s Climate March—what is in store for 2018? Among those continuing to protest and form...
Peace & Justice
Reported stories and first-person essays about Catholic social teaching and how Catholics are living out the call to work for justice.
Being evicted isn’t just a condition of poverty, it’s a cause, says Matthew Desmond, author of Pulitzer Prize-winning Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the...
Life for most children takes place within a six block radius of their home: school, shopping, worship, and play. These six blocks help define who they are...
The national headlines in 2015 were bold and attention grabbing. “Utah is winning the war on chronic homelessness with ‘Housing First’ program,” proclaimed the...
I was always uncomfortable with the narrative that the United States invented and perfected religious freedom. I grew up in the Midwest, perched self...
At 8th Day Center for Justice, commitment to the common good extends even to lunch hour. “You can go out, but the culture is that we come together for lunch,”...
It starts with a dusty, gray lump of coal. The animated character waves at others as they pass her on the street, but she is met with scorn or indifference...
For 10 years Kaven Donald submitted biannual applications to his parole board. For 10 years they were denied. Finally in 2011 he was granted parole and a year...
A few weeks ago I was standing in the back of a college classroom at the Catholic university where I teach while my students chatted with a guest speaker via...
Next Tuesday, November 7, 2017, is election day across America. Because of our places along the spectrum of American voters, Catholics again have a pivotal...
