Father Markoe’s pledge to work for racial justice helped transform Catholic institutions across the midwest.
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Father Albert McKnight: the Catholic combination of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X
He was a priest who argued that the Catholic Church was fundamentally racist, all the while remaining a faithful member of it.
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Martin Sheen: How Mother Teresa, Dan Berrigan’s lawyer and I fought to end the Gulf War
The carnage unleashed in the Persian Gulf compelled me to act yet again in hopes that somehow the bloodletting would end.
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Why I left the church — and why I came back
Here is a little story about how I left the church, sort of, and then came slouching back home, more or less.
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Remembering Father Enda McDonagh, a ‘critical but loyal’ Irish theologian who questioned ‘Humanae Vitae’
Rev. Enda McDonagh served the Irish church as a compassionate priest and renowned theologian. He died on Feb. 24.
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I’m a nun who has ministered to transgender people for over 20 years. These are some of their courageous stories.
I testify to you that transgender people are who they say they are.
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Archbishop García-Siller: The Texas weather disaster reminds us that we all need a Good Samaritan
This week has brought us all into close contact with human suffering. We are all like the man on the side of the road in the story of the Good Samaritan, beaten and bloody.
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I long for a Catholic Church that is unafraid to welcome Black people
We Jesuits hold Peter Claver up and hide behind him.
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Why Catholics are so obsessed with Jesus’ death and suffering: A meditation
Life is just a very terrible thing at times, and Christ knew it and we know it and the church seems to know it. The church is something that deals, quite unflinchingly, in reality.
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A day in the life of a lay Catholic woman who runs a parish
Hint: It involves sunrises, bus passes, Mass and lots of patience.