Is it loving or crazy to put your children on the sofa for a night so a person living on the street can have their bedroom? Johnathon Kelso thinks it’s what Jesus wants.
Social Justice
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
Michael Harrington, the ‘pious apostate’ who championed socialism in America
Michael Harrington was America’s much-needed conscience on issues of poverty in the 1960s and later.
Posted inNews
Pope Leo decries opioid crisis, gambling, cruelty toward migrants in major speech on new social ills
“Ever more inhuman measures are being adopted—even celebrated politically—that treat these ‘undesirables’ as if they were garbage and not human beings,” he said during an address to popular movements.
Posted inFaith in Focus
How NFL legend Vince Lombardi’s Catholic faith inspired him to fight racism
The same coach who believed in finding God in all people became the first to regularly draft Black players in the NFL draft’s first round.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
Pope Leo in ‘Dilexi Te’: We cannot love God unless we identify with the poor
In Pope Leo’s exhortation “Dilexi Te,’ we hear the voice of a patient teacher reminding us of an inescapable truth at the very heart of Christianity: Christ’s radical love for and identification with the poor.
Posted inIdeas
What Ethel Kennedy taught us about facilitating real change
Ethel Kennedy’s approach to human rights was rooted not in rhetoric but in relationships. She believed in the dignity of every person, and she lived that belief in ways that transcended politics.
Posted inDispatches
A Catholic health nonprofit in Harlem prepares for an ICE crackdown
“The fear has been very great in our community,” Lucia Aguilar, L.S.A.’s director of family support services, said. The agency offers online resources for people with irregular residency to prepare for an encounter with ICE. “We want our families to be ready for the worst-case scenario.”
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At Red Mass, Cardinal McElroy presses Supreme Court to restore hope
Practitioners of law have an opportunity to restore that lost trust and hope, Cardinal McElroy said. “No group in our society has a greater capacity to remold our political discourse. No group has a deeper calling to bring hope.”
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Jesuit James Vizzard, the larger-than-life ‘labor priest’
James Vizzard, S.J., was once recognized as “one of the most outspoken Catholic promoters of migrant issues” after the Second World War for his work with farmworkers—both with Cesar Chavez in California and nationally.
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‘Justice, not vengeance’: The life and ministry of Jesuit José María Tojeira
José María Tojeira, S.J., is remembered as a person of profound faith, courage, and conviction, someone who devoted his life to championing human rights, justice, and the dignity of the poor and oppressed.