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...
Peace & Justice
Reported stories and first-person essays about Catholic social teaching and how Catholics are living out the call to work for justice.
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...
MJ Park remembers, as a young Catholic, attending marches and rallies calling for fair housing, equal rights, and other social justice causes. Such causes were...
Growing up in West Texas, I was accustomed to conservative Christianity from a very young age. Not necessarily a doctrinal conservatism; most Christians I knew...
Rachel Swarns is a journalist, author, and associate professor of journalism at New York University. Around 1676, Ann Joice landed in the British colony of...
Playing God: American Catholic Bishops and the Far-Right By Mary Jo McConahay (Melville House, 2023) Some conservative Catholics like to disparage social...
