To our modern ears the idea of heresy seems quaint and medieval—involving technical arguments about abstract matters. But I contend that heresy and its cousin...
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 Catholic classrooms and Ugandan villages, Patrick Corrigan strives to learn how to heal wounds of violence. In 2007, six months after his college...
Could ending our adoration of oil be the key to a peaceful future? Has the idea of American exceptionalism finally run its historical course in the big muddy...
How violence takes a toll on our kids. As a firefighter and a police officer, Annette Nance-Holt and her ex-husband, Ronald Holt, knew the dangers of the city...
The scarcity of our most precious resource will make you rethink your morning shower. From her mud-walled hut in the village of Gutu Dobi, Ethiopia, Loko...
The election of an African American president has stirred excitement, but a leading black theologian says visions of a “postracial” America are...
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...
