Your reusable water bottle and organic shoes might have more of an impact on Mother Earth than you think. According to Daniel Goleman, it's not easy...
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 map of the City of Angels is a veritable Litany of the Saints. Nine years ago I had a sort of “asphalt epiphany.” It wasn’t on the...
And our politicians need a brain transplant. Universal health care is the most compassionate option we have, argues a Catholic doctor, and it’s the...
In this article from the U.S. Catholic archives, Kevin Clarke explored the state of our U.S. health care in 2004, capturing the effects of a crisis that...
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...
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...
At the root of her theology, says M. Shawn Copeland, is the pursuit of the question: What is the best, the most worthwhile way to live? While Christians...
