“I am encouraged and inspired by the pleas for peace that have continued to come from the family of George Floyd” over the Wright shooting, Archbishop Hebda added.
Social Justice
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Is there a ‘crisis’ on the U.S.-Mexico border? It’s a tough question to answer.
‘It is a question of perspective. Whose perspective do we adopt when we ask questions like that?’
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Final Plowshares Catholic peace activist sentenced to prison for nuclear base break-in
“My neighborhood, my family and I have a right to live without a nuclear gun on hair-trigger alert held perpetually to our heads,” Colville told the judge.
Posted inPolitics & Society, The Moral Economy
The fight to unionize Amazon is the most important labor story of this century
The most ambitious attempt to unionize in Amazon’s 26-year history has been widely endorsed, including by Senator Marco Rubio.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Father Albert McKnight: the Catholic combination of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X
He was a priest who argued that the Catholic Church was fundamentally racist, all the while remaining a faithful member of it.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Martin Sheen: How Mother Teresa, Dan Berrigan’s lawyer and I fought to end the Gulf War
The carnage unleashed in the Persian Gulf compelled me to act yet again in hopes that somehow the bloodletting would end.
Posted inInterviews, Politics & Society
Interview: How the Jesuits are working to confront their history of slavery
American Jesuit histories often minimize the important contributions that enslaved people made.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
This retired Black Catholic nurse is on a mission to urge people of color to get Covid-19 vaccine
Joyce Christian understands firsthand why many Black people and other people of color are hesitant and mistrust the medical community.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
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.
Posted inPolitics & Society, What Coronavirus Taught Us
What Coronavirus Taught Us about Inequality
Our nation has an empathy gap.