For Weil, work puts us in touch with ourselves, with others, with the exterior world.

We have to ask if the idea of vocation as a stable place in the world applies to the way careers operate in the American economy.

What is possible when we acknowledge the strength of our diversity?

The news was big, the numbers behind it less so: The federal government announced it will end its use of private prisons, having deemed them less safe and less effective than government-run facilities. This is welcome news to those who are hoping for prison reform, yet the total number of facilities

The lives of readers are likely to be not only longer but deeper.

It is in our acts of mercy, not retribution, that we share in the very life of God.

"Memory is a key part of keeping faith in the modern world."

Incompatible PositionsRe “Defend the Hyde Amendment” (Editorial, 8/15): There is no such thing as a pro-life Democratic Party position. It was excluded from the party in 1992 when they refused to let Pennsylvania’s Gov. Bob Casey Sr. (a defendant in that year’s Supreme Court

Jeering fellow Catholics as they enter the church is neither Catholic nor particularly pro-life.