“Hate is never right, and love is never wrong.”–Roman Kent, Auschwitz survivor In September, I visited Auschwitz-Birkenau for the first time. Studying and even...
Peace & Justice
In 2022, the governor of Texas and other federal agencies stepped up their efforts to address the increase in U.S. border crossings by Central and South...
This essay is also available to listen to as an audio recording. Shortly before the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, I traveled to Israel-Palestine as part...
Some Catholics in the United States reacted with umbrage at the latest missive from Rome on global warming, courtesy of Pope Francis: Laudate Deum (On the...
The names of the people mentioned in this essay have been changed to protect their privacy. In October 2011, I visited the Holy Land as a pilgrim. We stayed in...
When I first meet Sister Norma Pimentel over Zoom, not five minutes have gone by before she needs to pause and take an important call. “I’m sorry,” she says in...
A Prophet to the Peoples: Paul Farmer’s Witness and Theological Ethics Edited by Jennie Weiss Block, M. Therese Lysaught, and Alexandre A. Martins (Pickwick...
South Korea reached a record low in fertility in June, falling to a rate of just 0.70, a sharp drop from the already dismal 0.78 recorded in 2022. That puts...
Recently I stayed with a friend in her comfortable, airy country house. Dottie is a collector. Among a jumble of art objects depicting dogs, camels, and fish...
As a child, I visited the Civil War battlefield at Gettysburg. It was hard to imagine that peaceful scene—a lush, quiet field of gently waving tall grass—as...
