When sexual abuse and homophobia rear their ugly heads, a positive youth sports culture can be part of the solution. Clark Power founded Play Like a Champion...
Peace & Justice
Reported stories and first-person essays about Catholic social teaching and how Catholics are living out the call to work for justice.
In youth sports, we shouldn’t just be in it to win it. Sometimes that means parents need to be sidelined so kids can just play. When his daughter was playing...
c. 2014 Religion News Service (RNS) From the moment news broke that U.S. journalist James Foley had been beheaded by Islamic State extremists in the Middle...
c. 2014 Religion News Service (RNS) The Moral Monday movement, birthed by activists who protest the actions of the North Carolina General...
We’ve trickle-downed our way to shocking income inequality and a sluggish economy. Now it’s time for a reality check. Sounding Board is one person’s take on a...
Meet the woman who makes Walmart’s low-priced clothes. She works 10-hour days for $103 per month. And her factory is one of the good ones. Amid the bustle of...
In 2007 New Jersey became the first state to abolish the death penalty since it was reinstated in 1976, joining 12 other states that never reintroduced the...
Immigrants may seem like a powerless population, but community organizer Ana Garcia-Ashley believes that together they can be a force for positive change. As a...
In 1982, Sister Helen Prejean began a correspondence with two death row inmates in her home state of Louisiana. She eventually became the spiritual adviser to...
If a community wants things to change, sometimes they have to be willing to get together and track mud on the carpets of city hall. While growing up in the...
