On May 2, Notre Dame students gathered on a lawn on the university’s campus to call for a ceasefire in Gaza. Palestinian student Daniel Bannoura publicly...
Peace & Justice
I never thought gun violence would directly impact my life. And I never thought I would lose my child to gun violence here in Chicago. I was born in 1972 to a...
Mike Martin is the founder and executive director of RAWtools. “They shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall...
Sounding Board is one person’s take on a many-sided subject and does not necessarily reflect the opinions of U.S. Catholic, its editors, or the Claretians...
On a hot summer morning last August, a long line of cars waited in the Edmondson Village Shopping Center in Baltimore. The drivers, including some who arrived...
When St. Paul wrote, in his letter to the Romans, about a “law written on the hearts” of the Gentiles, he wasn’t just using a fanciful metaphor or trying to...
After graduating from a Jesuit University, I took the Jesuits’ call to live out the gospel to heart and signed up for a year with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps. I...
When Vincent de Paul entered the priesthood, he was largely motivated by ambition. As a priest, he served the powerful de Gondi family as a tutor and spiritual...
“When you find yourself in a situation like mine, you tend to forget that you have value, that you’re worth something. . . . So once again thank you for that...
If you suffer from high blood pressure, read Walt Bogdanich and Mike Forsythe’s When McKinsey Comes to Town (Doubleday) with caution and in small doses. The...
