Charles R. Morris, who died on Dec. 13, was a prolific author with a broad range of interests and expertise. He also wrote a two-part history of America Media for our 100th anniversary.
Obituary
Posted inLast Take, Politics & Society
What bell hooks taught a celibate Catholic priest-in-training about racism and feminism
“Reading authors like bell hooks taught me to be alert not only for instances of sexism and racism but for patterns of it,” writes Father James Martin.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
Remembering Donald Cozzens, the priest who saw the sex abuse crisis coming—and worked to change the priesthood
Father Donald Cozzens was rightly recognized as a prophetic voice and an advocate for church reform throughout his life and priestly ministry.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Colin Powell was a warrior — with a healthy skepticism of war.
Colin Powell’s great misfortune was to serve as secretary of state among “the Vulcans,” the Republican policy-makers who subverted Mr. Powell’s more moderate initiatives.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Remembering Thomas Levergood, who brought serious Catholic thought back to the secular university
In founding the Lumen Christi Institute in 1997, Thomas Levergood created a model for engaging the secular disciplines with the Catholic intellectual tradition.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Walter Mondale was a decent man who knew how to laugh at himself. We need more politicians like him.
Walter F. Mondale was the embodiment of a kind of decency and civility that has all but disappeared from the American political scene.
Posted inFaith, News
Hans Küng, influential Vatican II theologian censured by John Paul II, dies at 93
Hans Küng was first in flair and media savviness among 20th-century theologians.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Remembering Janice McLaughlin, the Maryknoll sister who found freedom in the struggle for African liberation
Even as a child she sensed that Africa was her destiny, the roots of her mission vocation found in a fourth-grade geography textbook that pictured giraffes loping across the plain
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Remembering Father Enda McDonagh, a ‘critical but loyal’ Irish theologian who questioned ‘Humanae Vitae’
Rev. Enda McDonagh served the Irish church as a compassionate priest and renowned theologian. He died on Feb. 24.
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Remembering Margaret Snyder, Catholic feminist pioneer
A prominent figure in United Nations efforts to help women in Africa escape poverty, Margaret Snyder was inspired by her parents and by Catholic mentors from her hometown.