Upholding the authority of the law to restrain the chief executive is a core Christian value.
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In the fight against racism, white Christians must break the cycle of distraction
Today all white Christians need to fix our gaze on the suffering Christ in the wounds of our Black brothers and sisters.
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Why protesting injustice is a fundamentally Christian act
Our fidelity to Christ and his body the church should have less to do with becoming an aggrieved church of fire damage than becoming a compassionate church of kinship with the broken.
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Where can we find shelter in a time of risk and uncertainty?
Can the humanities help us find intellectual, emotional and spiritual shelter during our present time of crises?
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Where can we find God during a modern-day plague?
In the 20th and 21st centuries, many theologians have been rethinking how we imagine God in the light of revelations of evolution and the revolutionary realizations of spacetime and quantum mechanics. It’s time for us to catch up.
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The legacy of Father Adolfo Nicolás
Adolfo Nicolás, S.J., former superior general of the Society of Jesus, helped to recenter the role of imagination in Jesuit education and in the intellectual and spiritual formation of the whole person.
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How Catholics can use this time without the Eucharist to grow closer to Christ
In discerning the necessity to avoid contagion in comparison with the need to offer access to the sacraments, it is necessary to comprehend what is at stake in each area.
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Criticizing a pope: A dialogue between Massimo Faggioli and Bill McCormick, S.J.
When is it appropriate to criticize a reigning pope, and what implications does that question have for Catholic ecclesiology?
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All hospitals want to save lives. Should they also be seeking to save ‘life years’?
The ethical problem with talking about ‘expected life years’
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Cardinal Cupich: How Vatican II can help us navigate the politics of a pandemic
For the Catholic community, the penetrating vision of the Second Vatican Council identifies a clear pathway of public engagement and conscience formation.