By Andrea Riccardi as told to Desmond O’Grady in a U.S. Catholic interview conducted by O’Grady. It had been the custom in Rome that the diocesan...
Peace & Justice
Reported stories and first-person essays about Catholic social teaching and how Catholics are living out the call to work for justice.
The founder of the international lay movement of the Sant’Egidio Community explains how his group has been able to build peace, one conflict at a time. When...
Immigrants today experience economic, social, legal, and pyschological crucifixions. Last April I was working on a video documentary on the U.S.-Mexican border...
In 1967 U.S. Catholic editors call for a swift end to the Vietnam War. “It is our contention that the war in Vietnam is wrong, is unjust, is...
Not all JustFaith groups meet in parish meeting rooms. One allows inmates to deepen their faith and serve their community behind bars. Eleven men sit in a...
In a 1990s article from Salt of the Earth, Jack Jezreel wrote about the surprising success of JustFaith, the parish-based program on social justice, at its...
"You can't put a mountain back. Do you think you can do a better job than God?" — from Leveling Appalachia, a video from Yale's...
Parishes are finding that reducing their carbon footprint is not only an environmental issue but a spiritual one, too. Parishioners at Mary Immaculate Church...
For graduates of peace studies programs at Catholic Universities, the career track can lead to all kinds of interesting places. In her first job out of...
For Heidi Tousignant, the faith-formation director from Minnesota, having studied peace in college relates directly to some of her most important-and unpaid...
