The four churchwomen chose to stay and to suffer, as St. Romero had once said, “the same fate as the poor.”
Social Justice
Posted inFaith, News
Pope Francis to judges: There cannot be true social justice amid deep inequality
Guaranteeing justice for all men and women is not possible while a few people control most of the world’s wealth and everyone else’s right to a dignified life is disregarded, Pope Francis said.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Don’t wait until you’re dead. Giving while living is the most effective kind of philanthropy.
Chuck Feeney donated the last of his fortune this year, writes Mary Beth Powers of the Catholic Medical Mission Board, and set an example for others to act now rather than later.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Dear White Catholics: It’s time to be anti-racist and leave white fragility behind.
It is important to feel guilt and shame over racism in order to overcome it.
Posted inFaith, GoodNews
Inclusive prayer service for people with disabilities marks 30th anniversary of the A.D.A.
An New York City parish organized a fully accessible prayer service for people with disabilities, who even in the church are often forgotten on the margins.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Dorothy Day’s granddaughter sentenced to prison for nuclear base break-in
Martha Hennessy, a granddaughter of Dorothy Day, the founder of the Catholic Worker movement, was sentenced Friday (Nov. 13) to 10 months in prison for breaking into Kings Bay Naval Base in Georgia.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Nigeria’s Catholic leaders call for an end to crackdown on #EndSARS protestors
The demands of the demonstrators have quickly expanded into a broad critique of government corruption, incompetence and impunity as human rights abuses and economic malaise continues in Nigeria.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Why is Zimbabwe conscripting its doctors? It’s all about control.
The latest move to militarize Zimbabwean society appears an attempt not to reward career military officers who remain loyal to the ruling ZANU-PF party but to exert control over a different group of professionals who have been pressing for reform.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
Sister Simone Campbell, of ‘Nuns on the Bus’ fame, to step down as head of Network
Sister Campbell, the social justice activist made famous by headlining “Nuns on the Bus” tours, announced she will step down from her post leading Network Lobby this March.
Posted inNews Analysis, Politics & Society
What pro-life Catholics are doing to fight suicide, the death penalty, poverty, hunger, gun violence and police killings, the opioid epidemic and wars
A response to former U. S. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich