The “manosphere” calls for more testosterone, more spectacle. But servant leadership, embodied in Catholic men’s groups past and present, encompass the fullness of human experience.
Catholic Social Teaching
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
The problem with JD Vance’s theology of ‘ordo amoris’—and its impact on policy
JD Vance tries to use Aquinas’s ‘order of love’ to support his political ideology, but is the ethical order he proposes actually consistent with the ethic of Aquinas or, more broadly, with the principles of Catholic social teaching?
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
R.I.P. John Coleman, S.J., distinguished sociologist (and parish priest)
One of the nation’s most distinguished sociologists for many years and an expert on the relationship between religion and public life, the Rev. John A. Coleman died on Jan. 17, 2025 in Los Gatos, Calif., at the age of 87.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Caring for migrants and refugees is not optional for Catholics.
Jesus calls us to care for those in need—regardless of national boundaries.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Your Take
Your Take: A pro-life approach that’s more than just outlawing abortion
Can the pro-life movement advance beyond the push to merely outlaw abortion?
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Cardinal McElroy is a man of dialogue. Trump should be willing to talk—and listen—to him.
In 2017 speech to a conference of the World Meeting of Popular Movements, Cardinal McElroy, the newly appointed archbishop of Washington, gives a hint as to how he might approach the incoming Trump administration.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
The radical Gospel response to the deep challenges of homelessness: unconditional love
The eyes of faith allowed us to see the people we served as people who shared in the purpose of life we all have been tasked with: to love and be loved.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
A patron saint for migrants in the rural Midwest
Msgr. Luigi Ligutti, an immigrant priest who served other migrants in Iowa, teaches us to look toward rural America, its old residents and new arrivals alike, with sympathetic eyes.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Does charitable giving have benefits for your health? This nonprofit is trying to find out.
The charitable nonprofit Unbound is currently seeking participants for a study on the health benefits of charitable giving.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
Community-building in election times: How Catholics can find our way back to each other
As Catholics, we must work to block harms where we see them, do our part to build the world we want to inhabit, and embody our fundamental dignity as human beings.