My dad and both granddads were union guys. Dad worked in factories his whole life, except for a few years of military service during the Korean War. One of my...
Peace & Justice
Reported stories and first-person essays about Catholic social teaching and how Catholics are living out the call to work for justice.
At age 54, when I had been a Catholic sister for 38 years, I met Courtney, a trans woman. This was, at that point in my life, a new experience. I immediately...
If you attend a labor union meeting or a rally for workers’ rights anywhere in the country, don’t be surprised to spot a Catholic priest in the crowd. Priests...
Floating about in right-of-center Catholic circles these days are several worrisome and closely related ideas for the role of the church in public life. Some...
On September 24, Pope Francis will address a Joint Session of Congress; he is the first pope to receive this honor. He will stand at the dais with Speaker...
Michael Brown died on August 9, 2015, an unarmed African American man, barely 18 years old, killed by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. His tragic death...
If you’re middle class, then you probably know that you’re part of a dwindling slice of the American pie. Are you feeling like it’s harder and harder to make...
In 1998 the then-newly-elected Iranian president, Mohammed Khatami, overcame the opposition of hard-line ayatollahs and sought rapprochement with the West...
How disturbing it is to strain to hear the videoed conversation: Between sips of wine and tinkling salad forks, the discussion focuses on how best to crush...
Last week, Pope Francis issued his most urgent and sweeping indictment of the structural immorality of the global economy to date. It was an astounding...
