A Lenten reflection on the collective sins of racism, violence and environmental destruction.
Social Justice
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Cardinal Rodriguez: On the need to question capitalism
Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga during the Q & A following his Jan. 20 talk on “The Meaning of Mercy” at Santa Clara University.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Merton (Still) Matters: How the Trappist monk and author speaks to millennials
Jan. 31, 2015, would have marked the 100th birthday of the American Trappist monk and author Thomas Merton.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
A Legend Unraveled
Cesar Chavez is widely considered a great American hero. But ‘From the Jaws of Victory’ by Matt Garcia explores some of the activist’s flaws not often acknowledged by those who know only the legend.
Posted inFaith, Washington Front
Pope Benedict’s greatest disconnect from U.S. elites wasn’t about sex. It was over economic justice.
For secular Washington, Benedict was the pope of no. For those who listened, Benedict is more the pope of and, connecting charity and truth, faith and reason.
Posted inEditorials, Politics & Society
Repeal the Second Amendment
Though we cannot create an absolutely safe world, we can create a safer world.
Posted inFaith, In All Things
Living with Dan Berrigan
Living in the same Jesuit community as Dan Berrigan–what a privilege to share meals and conversation with this great man an icon of the anti-war movement who was willing to spend time behind bars to assert his opposition to war-related violence and in fact all forms of violence including abortio
Posted inPolitics & Society
Lessons in Mercy: Justice and reconciliation in the aftermath of atrocities
Justice and reconciliation in the aftermath of atrocities
Posted inBooks
Doctor to the Poor
My take-home message from this review is similar to the line I wrote on my book reports in elementary school: I would recommend this book to all my friends. It is a rare experience for me to find a book that sets me on fire, stirs me up and makes me think critically about my […]
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Crusader for a better society
Maurice Isserman the William R Kenan Jr Professor of History at Hamilton College in Clinton N Y has a well-earned reputation as a leading historian of the American political left His specialty has led him to explore the life of the socialist activist Michael Harrington (1928-89).