The progress of the Industrial Revolution came with a steep price: the horrible excess of human wreckage. Be it death or dismemberment in factory work, chronic...
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 I landed on the muddy ground inside Seneca Army Depot early one October morning in 1983, I heard a friend call from outside, “Did you practice that, Fran...
The uniform of college students changes every few years. When I first began my teaching it was bell-bottoms, then dancers’ leg warmers, Uggs, and skinny jeans...
Jessie Dye is rarely at a loss for words. And that’s a good thing, because she’s part of a grassroots climate movement that has no time for silence. When she...
Loosely orbiting the journal First Things, since the late 1980s a handful of Catholic intellectuals have systematically promoted what they believed to be an...
Last week I described the utter assault on religious liberty under ISIS occurring in Syria and Iraq. At the same time that I wrote, the United States...
Interfaith harmony demands a mutual respect for human dignity. In Jordan, Father Nabil Haddad is working to make that happen. Father Nabil Haddad wants you to...
In Syria and Iraq, Christians and other religious minorities are victims of genocide at the hands of ISIS. Accounts of forced conversions, mass beheadings...
Here in the United States, the common assumption is that the terrorism of ISIS, Boko Haram, Al Shabab, and Al Qaeda comes down to one word—Islam. So...
“I don’t mind work. I do anything. I dig a trench for you. But we need help. It’s getting serious out here. Winter’s going to be here in a minute. I ain’t got...
