So many who work today with migrants around the world have observed a human family where millions of people are on the move, suffering and persecuted. How can we best serve migrants in our social and intellectual apostolates?
Social Justice
Posted inExplainer, Faith
What’s in a name? Why the pope picked ‘Leo XIV’
Pope Leo XIV picked one of the most common names in history for a pope. But it is a name with great resonance in modern church history, and one whose selection suggests quite a bit about what the reign of the new pontiff might be like.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
A book on ‘wokeness’ Catholic evangelizers need to read
In ‘We Have Never Been Woke,’ Musa al-Gharbi seeks to untangle competing threads of discourse around identity and social justice.
Posted inPolitics & Society, The Weekly Dispatch
Nobel-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz on Pope Francis, Trump, jubilee and debt forgiveness
An interview on economics and Catholic social teaching with Joseph E. Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize winning economist and a professor at Columbia University.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Ignatian Solidarity Network sources college gear that is ethically ready to wear
Can you actually achieve a triple bottom line—people, planet and profit—in clothing manufacture? CEPA shows the way.
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
William Stringfellow: The modern prophet who helped hide Daniel Berrigan from the FBI
Throughout his life, William Stringfellow was the modern incarnation of an Old Testament prophet, calling out lies and hypocrisy and demanding fidelity to the commandments of God.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
3 ways the Catholic Church can support migrants in the new Trump administration
In the face of dangerous nativism and the possibility of state violence through deportation, the church will be challenged to offer a compelling and credible response.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
Bishop Budde showed faithful moral courage. Catholics should follow her lead.
Bishop Budde reminded Donald Trump that people are scared and vulnerable, and that compassion and welcome are the way of the Gospel.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
Firefighters from Canada, Mexico and U.S. prisons fought the L.A. fires. They have something to teach us about solidarity.
The show of national and international support in California reflects the human unity that God calls us to.
Posted inEditorials, Politics & Society
The Christian response to a suffering world is hope.
Christian hope, as Pope Francis understands it, reminds us that a better and more just world is within our grasp.