If the people are in the streets in protest, then the church has to be in the streets in protest, too.
Social Justice
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Down with credit cards. Up the minimum wage.
Credit cards make it easy to ignore the reality of how much things cost and how little money most people actually have. This is no accident.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Catholics: Embrace being ‘woke.’ It’s part of our faith tradition.
It is easy to mock “wokeness,” writes Kathleen Bonnette, but developing an awareness of the realities that others face is relevant to the first step of the pastoral cycle: seeing.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Pope Francis asks every Catholic to join a new grassroots movement to save the environment
Pope Francis asked everyone to join a new global grassroots movement to create a more inclusive, fraternal, peaceful and sustainable world.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
Canada’s bishops withheld aid from groups they thought had ties to abortion. Repairing relationships is proving difficult.
Canada’s bishops remain committed to the success of Development and Peace “as a Canadian, Catholic organization in communion with the Bishops and the universal Church”
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Catholics must work to build a society that actually supports families
A more welcoming society for babies, children and families must work on many levels. Catholics should be leading that charge.
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
Bob Marley’s journey to justice, joy and (ultimately) to Christian faith
When I was unmoored from the church, Marley’s music and messianic faith told me: No, God has not forgotten you.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
I never met Daniel Berrigan. But he showed me as a young Catholic a different way to live out my faith.
Learning of the witness of Daniel Berrigan, S.J., sparked me to make many of the choices that led me to be a journalist and an activist.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
‘He loved my Cajun jokes!’ Sister Helen Prejean on Daniel Berrigan
Sometimes people can work for justice and they become so doggone serious that it is kind of heavy to be with them. It was never heavy to be with Dan.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Celebrating the Eucharist with Daniel Berrigan: ‘A Communion I will never forget’
On the fifth anniversary of the death of Daniel Berrigan, S.J., a close friend and colleague looks back on a poignant moment in their work together.