The election of an African American president has stirred excitement, but a leading black theologian says visions of a “postracial” America are...
Peace & Justice
Reported stories and first-person essays about Catholic social teaching and how Catholics are living out the call to work for justice.
A referendum on sexual health that earned the support of 90 percent of Boston College students presents a unique opportunity to discuss sexuality...
Veronica Mumbi Ndiritu is the principal at Nkaimurunya Kindergarten. She is 26, unmarried, and successful by any standards. She gave up a higher salary...
Steven Saitabau was one of 23 that were baptized in one Kenyan parish the first weekend of October 2008. Nine years old, he had lived half is life without a...
The growing Kenyan church responds to the challenges of a young democracy. “Our mother, Kenya, we love you so much; we need you again,” sing the...
A Catholic view of the market just may be what’s needed to rescue our economy from its moral recession. The editors interview Daniel Finn If anything...
Catholic charities struggle to help families meet basic needs. “Here in San Jose, there’s a street that they call the ‘empty street’...
The immigration debate comes home to Catholic parishes She brought her children here from her country because she feared gangs would kill them. “I left...
There’s much in Islam that favors women, says this scholar. As sisters in faith Muslim and Catholic women can seek out such traditions together. The...
There’s much in Islam that favors women, says this scholar. As sisters in faith Muslim and Catholic women can seek out such traditions together. The...








