Little kids and old folks find comfort in each other’s company at an intergenerational center. At age 3, Annie was everyone’s darling, an...
Peace & Justice
Reported stories and first-person essays about Catholic social teaching and how Catholics are living out the call to work for justice.
Prison can be an unforgiving place, especially for parents who are far away from their loved ones. A program in California lets moms and their kids be a family...
Catholic social teaching has been called the church’s best-kept secret, but the biggest secret of all may be the church’s teaching on racism, says...
The first thing you notice about Thich Nhat Hanh is that he walks really, really slowly. he also speaks very deliberately. And when he wants a sip of tea, he...
By Bishop Robert Morneau This article appeared in the June 1999 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 64, No. 6, pages 34-37). Some years ago I came across a poem by...
First of all, Dorothy Day taught me that justice begins on our knees. I have never known anyone, not even in monasteries, who was more of a praying person than...
This article appeared in the August 1988 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 53, No. 8, pages 6-17). An old Arab proverb says: “Trust in God but tie up your...
By Michael Christopher This article appeared in the September 1979 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 44, No. 9, pages 49-51). It is a contemporary truism...
Suppose someone decided to take the Gospels of Christ literally: to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, harbor the harborless. What would he or she be like? The...
