Daniel Berrigan knew any true encounter with God will scandalize us, destabilize us.
Catholic Social Teaching
Posted inFaith, Signs Of the Times
Daniel Berrigan: poet, priest, prophet
Daniel Berrigan, the Jesuit priest and acclaimed poet who for decades famously challenged U.S. Catholics to reject war and nuclear weapons, died on April 30. He was 94. He was a Jesuit for 76 years and a priest for 63 years.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Cardinal Rodriguez: On the need to question capitalism
Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga during the Q & A following his Jan. 20 talk on “The Meaning of Mercy” at Santa Clara University.
Posted inPolitics & Society
Paul Ryan: We can do better in the fight against poverty
Paul Ryan: There is a lot of untapped potential in this country; I have seen it firsthand.
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 inFaith, Washington Front
Pope Benedict’s greatest disconnect from U.S. elites wasn’t about sex. It was over economic justice.
For secular Washington, Benedict was the pope of no. For those who listened, Benedict is more the pope of and, connecting charity and truth, faith and reason.
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A Professor, a President and the Klan
Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education (May 1954), racial tensions in Alabama heightened considerably. When in February 1956 Autherine Lucy, a black student, began attending class at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, white students and community membe
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Crusader for a better society
Maurice Isserman the William R Kenan Jr Professor of History at Hamilton College in Clinton N Y has a well-earned reputation as a leading historian of the American political left His specialty has led him to explore the life of the socialist activist Michael Harrington (1928-89).
Posted inFaith, Vantage Point
The 10 Building Blocks of Catholic Social Teaching
From the archives: Highlights from a 1998 U.S. bishops’ document on “an essential part of the Catholic faith.”