‘Your homework is to tell someone you love them today’: Colman McCarthy’s lessons in peace
Colman McCarthy, who died on Feb. 27 at the age of 87, had a well-deserved reputation for seeking out the underdogs in life—as well as for his determined lifelong stands against war, capital punishment, homelessness and the other seamy sides of contemporary capitalism.
On immigration and war, the U.S. bishops are echoing Óscar Romero
Decades after his martyrdom, Romero’s insistence that the laws of God stand above law created by humankind and the edicts and commands of political and military leaders has been repeated by bishops in the United States, speaking against war-making and mass deportation.
Why do bad things happen to good people? A conversation on suffering with Kate Bowler
Kate Bowler leans, as I do, on a God who accompanies us through our suffering, as she felt God did during her cancer treatments.
Separating the art from the artist? Broadway’s ‘Giant’ wrestles with Roald Dahl’s antisemitism
The tragedy of Dahl’s antisemitism isn’t that it colored his art but that it clouded his vision and tainted his outrage.
Jerusalem patriarchate cancels Palm Sunday procession, postpones chrism Mass amid war
Uncertainty surrounds upcoming Holy Week liturgies — central to the Christian faith and typically drawing large gatherings of pilgrims and local worshippers.
Belgian bishop says he will ‘make every effort’ to ordain married men by 2028
In a pastoral letter published March 19, Bishop Johan Bonny of Antwerp wrote that the question is “no longer whether” married men can be ordained, but “when” and “who will do it.”
The case for a universal basic income in the era of A.I.
Do we just do nothing if artificial intelligence leads to rising unemployment and poverty?
Pope Leo XIV declares Boys Town founder Father Flanagan venerable
Pope Leo XIV declared Boys Town founder Father Edward Flanagan venerable, recognizing his heroic virtue and moving him one step closer to sainthood.
What you need to know about Pope Leo’s October meeting on marriage and family
Pope Leo XIV has summoned the leaders of the world’s episcopal conferences to the Vatican in October to discuss marriage and the family “in light of the changes that continue to impact families.”
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