After more than 30 years of stalemate, some on both sides of the abortion debate are ready to put down their signs and start trying to work together...
Peace & Justice
Reported stories and first-person essays about Catholic social teaching and how Catholics are living out the call to work for justice.
Even if Kristin Shrader-Frechette's mother hadn't died of an environmentally-induced cancer at the age of 43, leaving seven children motherless in...
They're not immigrants, but they don't feel fully "American" either: U.S.-born Latinos are struggling to find their place in the U.S...
Young people can change the world, this Muslim interfaith organizer says. They just need a chance to share their traditions with each other. Eboo Patel greatly...
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...
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...
