Joyce Christian understands firsthand why many Black people and other people of color are hesitant and mistrust the medical community.
Social Justice
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.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Read: Pope Francis’ Lenten message for 2021
God’s forgiveness, offered also through our words and actions, enables us to experience an Easter of fraternity.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Pope Francis has criticized both the left and the right’s politics. Community organizing offers a third way
Pope Francis challenges us to reject the selfishness of fake populism, write two veterans of social justice campaigns. Community organizing can help us build a different kind of politics.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
We can hold Trump accountable and still have national unity. Just ask St. Augustine and Pope Francis.
President Biden called for national unity in his inaugural address, but vengeance is not the way to repair public trust, writes Kathleen Bonnette. Restorative justice is a better way toward flourishing for all.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Vatican Dispatch
After coup in Myanmar, Cardinal Bo calls for calm, release of prisoners and urges West to avoid sanctions
Cardinal Charles Maung Bo appealed to the people of Myanmar “to remain calm” and not resort to violence in the wake of the military coup.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Vatican: It’s unjust (and dangerous) for wealthy nations to hoard the Covid vaccine.
The Covid-19 vaccines give Catholics an opportunity to rethink our health priorities, writes M. Therese Lysaught. First, how should we respond to vaccine stockpiling by wealthy countries?
Posted inFeatures, Politics & Society
Our world is ripe for revolution. 10 years after Occupy and the Arab Spring, what have we learned?
After all the hope I and others felt as the story of 2011 swept across the world, the accounting of the decade since leans mightily toward disaster.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Trump’s supporters see him as a messiah. What does it mean for Christians to try and love them—and him?
What are we to do with the fact that the insurrectionists and presumably many more of President Trump’s supporters really treat this man like a messiah?