I grew up in a Christian tradition that regularly talked about extreme heat, but it was always about hell. You didn’t want to go to hell, because hell was hot...
Peace & Justice
Reported stories and first-person essays about Catholic social teaching and how Catholics are living out the call to work for justice.
When Gretchen Jezerc learned of ICE raids ramping up in her hometown of Pittsburgh, she knew she had to do something. Along with thousands of others, she...
On Divine Mercy Sunday, April 12, Bishop Steven Biegler of Cheyenne, Wyoming published a pastoral letter on migration called “Be a Merciful Neighbor” in...
On April 13 to 14, Yom HaShoah—Holocaust Remembrance Day—we remember both the immense human loss and the fragile, defiant humanity that persisted despite it...
In Orlando, Florida, in 2012, a wife and husband cultivated a healthy vegetable garden in their front yard. But the city of Orlando fined and prohibited them...
The Catholic Church’s principles on immigration have their roots in scripture, tradition, and magisterial teaching. Both the Hebrew scriptures and Christian...
The word sabotage—from the French saboter, “to bungle, wreck, or willfully disrupt”—originally referred to a 19th-century labor tactic. French textile workers...
One of my favorite paintings of Palm Sunday is James Ensor’s “Christ’s Entry into Brussels in 1889.” It’s a chaotic painting: half mob, half Mardi Gras...
The day before the United States and Israel launched a joint military campaign over Iran, which, in its first days, reached more than 4,000 targets and killed...
Theologian Kat Armas started thinking seriously about Mary’s role in the Catholic faith when she wrote her first book, Abuelita Faith (Baker Books), which...
