I was 40 years old before I realized the connection between the Jesus who said, “I was hungry and you gave me to eat,” and the real-life experience of being...
Peace & Justice
Reported stories and first-person essays about Catholic social teaching and how Catholics are living out the call to work for justice.
When I heard the news that four U.S. church women, including Jean Donovan, were raped and killed in El Salvador on Dec. 2, 1980, I was a senior at Duke...
Arizona's immigration crackdown both was inspired by and inspires fear. "Panico." That's how Joel Navarette, the coordinator of the...
Our government's use of torture puts being both American and Catholic in serious conflict, says this theologian. Theological research doesn't often...
Can fair trade grow beyond just coffee? Sunday Mass has ended at St. Mary of Sorrows Catholic Church in Fairfax, Virginia, and parishioners are filing out. Deb...
With Arizona's new immigration law causing debate around the country, it's best to start off on the same page about the facts. Lawyer Tom Roach clears...
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...
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...
