There is no one solution, including the best-intentioned right-to-shelter policies, that can address the multitude of issues that drive people into homelessness on a daily basis.
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Remembering Canada’s Jacques Monet, S.J., historian of Jesuits and the monarchy
Jacques Monet, S.J., passed away peacefully on May 14 at the age of 94, leaving behind a great legacy to his church and nation.
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How Catholic education can make space for introverts
Let us cultivate universities and workplaces where the contemplative life is valued, where introverts and extroverts alike can thrive, and where every person can feel recognized.
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Can’t stand your neighbor’s politics? Pray for them anyway.
Your enemies are children of God—and that includes the presidential candidate you can’t stand and his supporters.
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Harrison Butker’s commencement speech and the danger of a Catholic ‘dead traditionalism’
Well, it isn’t the first time that Harrison Butker has missed wide right.
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How a college class discussion on sex and gender turned from culture war to conversation
By remembering how a group of his students mended a fracture over a controversial book, a former college professor finds hope for national reconciliation.
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Americans are worried about Christian nationalism. The church should take that as a wake-up call.
While it is important to emphasize the transcendent source of human rights, it would be short-sighted for Christians to avoid reflecting on what may be leading some to conflate Christianity and Christian nationalism.
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The campus protests for Gaza aren’t perfect. But their goal is just—and urgent.
It is easy to find flaws—big ones, even—in large social movements, but we would do well to remember why student protests against the war in Gaza are happening in the first place.
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Young U.S. Catholics want more orthodoxy. That doesn’t mean they reject Vatican II.
Catholic life in the United States is deeply rooted in the reforms of the Second Vatican Council. But that might not mean what you think it means.
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Frontline caretakers understand the holiness of vulnerable strangers better than anyone
Many professionals who care for strangers are not religious workers, but they play a pivotal role in reinforcing the imago Dei, the notion that all people are made in the image of God.