Dr. Paul Farmer was world-renowned for his medical achievements, but he also had a profound impact on friends and colleagues who saw him as a person of great holiness.
Social Justice
Posted inFaith, Features
I’ve been on death row for 23 years. Catholic Mass gives me hope in the midst of my suffering.
“I returned to my Catholic upbringing, professing a faith I did not completely feel, because I was suffering and needed answers from God,” writes Lyle C. May, who is on death row in North Carolina.
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
A peace activist with a monastic temperament: Remembering Jim Forest
Jim Forest, who died on Jan. 13, was a lifelong peace activist and the author of numerous books, including biographies of Dorothy Day, Thomas Merton and Daniel Berrigan, S.J.
Posted inFaith, Podcasts
Deep Dive: Who is Rutilio Grande, and what does his beatification mean for the people of El Salvador?
On this deep dive episode of “Inside the Vatican,” we examine the story of Rutilio Grande through the eyes of his friends, family and scholars of his legacy.
Posted inFaith
Padre Tío Tilo: Rutilio Grande’s niece talks about her childhood with her martyred uncle
Ana Gladys Guzmán Grande will be present during her uncle’s beatification. She spoke at length about Rutilio Grande, S.J., in an interview with America.
Posted inFeatures, Politics & Society
How do we prepare Catholic universities for success? Focus on the marginalized.
To secure a more promising tomorrow, institutional presidents should reclaim a commitment central to the founding of Catholic colleges and universities in the United States: a special focus on the needs and the dignity of the marginalized.
Posted inFaith, Last Take
Martin Luther King Jr. was right: We must not choose order over justice
One of the best ways to celebrate Black History Month this February, in my opinion, is to cease to covet order and negative peace that is the fruit of tolerated injustice.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Catholic critics of ‘woke’ ideology risk repeating the church’s Modernist crisis of over 100 years ago
The temptation is to fight the ghosts of Modernism by denigrating those working for social justice and “elites” as anti-religious co-conspirators. But this would be a disservice to the truth and to the church.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Cardinal Turkson addresses rumors on his resignation and presents Pope Francis’ World Day of Peace message
In his message for the 2022 World Day of Peace, Pope Francis proposed three paths to peace: dialogue between the generations, greater investment in education and job creation.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
When Thanksgiving gratitude comes with a side of guilt
How can we be grateful in a world filled with inequality?