Bernadette Eguia knows what it’s like to feel like an outsider. Originally from Mexico, she moved to the United States in 2017 to live with her now-husband...
Peace & Justice
Reported stories and first-person essays about Catholic social teaching and how Catholics are living out the call to work for justice.
Immigration has regularly been a source of political and social tension in the United States, and this tension has increased since the last time comprehensive...
Any journalist writing about the Israel-Hamas conflict should do so with humility. So let me state up front: I am not a Middle East expert, nor am I a...
A voting myth goes like this: In a presidential election, Evangelicals go right. Jews and Black Protestants veer left. Catholics take the middle, the swing...
In Argentina’s recent presidential election, an upstart challenger threatened the incumbent party. Polls showed Sergio Massa, the current economy minister...
It’s hard to find anyone who has anything against Canadians. In our cultural imagination, they remain the hemisphere’s unfailingly decent folk. But our polite...
Rosemary P. Carbine is a theologian, author, and associate professor of religious studies at Whittier College in Whittier, California. “Religion, especially...
I read our pope’s documents in Spanish to get an intimate sense of what he’s feeling. I also refer to him as Francisco, because as a Latin American and a child...
The authors of Catholic Social Teaching: Our Best Kept Secret (Orbis) lament that contemporary college students, seminarians, and people in the pews know very...
Like the pope’s encyclical letter on creation care, Laudato Si’, the apostolic exhortation Laudate Deum alludes to St. Francis of Assisi and his famous...
