On the Feast Day of Mother Cabrini, the patron saint of immigrants, a call to make room for today’s migrants and refugees.
Politics & Society
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
My father’s war: A note to my father on the 100th anniversary of the US entrance into WWI
World War I stories include several about enemies who discovered one another’s humanity. On the 100th anniversary of the United States’ entry into the war, this is one.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Signs Of the Times
Private investing for the common good?
A new development model seeks to turn the power of the market economy to social good.
Posted inFeatures, Politics & Society
Watergate, S.J.: Three Jesuits and the downfall of a president
By the spring of 1973, the break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C., had become a sensation but not yet an obsession.
Posted inIn All Things, Politics & Society
Unhealthy Inequality
Many of us know the ruckus that emerged when Pope Francis tweeted “Idquo Iniquitas Radix Malorum,” “Inequality is the root of evil.” He got accused by the likes of Rush Limbaugh of being a Marxist.
Posted inFeatures, Politics & Society
We are one body: Catholics raise voices against the use of solitary confinement
Catholics raise voices against the use of solitary confinement.
Posted inPolitics & Society
A Post-Catholic Ireland?: Renewing the Irish church from within
Renewing the Irish church from within.
Posted inBooks, Politics & Society
Like A Good Neighbor
Robert Wuthnow of Princeton University is now pretty much the dean of American sociologists of religion. Much like the late Rev. Andrew Greeley, Wuthnow is a very prolific author, penning a book about once a year.
Posted inPolitics & Society
Murray’s Mistake: The political divisions a theologian failed to foresee
The political divisions a theologian failed to foresee
Posted inEditorials, Politics & Society
When the Law Is a Crime
Supporters of traditional marriage must denounce unjust discrimination against homosexuals.