In the coronavirus epidemic, Catholic educators have a real-world laboratory to evaluate how they make practical the too-often merely conceptual talk about Catholic identity. Do current pedagogies give students what we say they will—a truly distinctive way of being, a way of knowing and a way of responding to life’s most difficult problems?
More than 100 organizations--including Catholic religious congregations-- which advocate for debt relief have publicized a letter to the International Monetary Fund calling on international policymakers to cancel debt payments for poor and developing nations so that they use focus their resources on dealing with the pandemic.
Ukrainian Catholic bishops are calling for an end to the practice of commercial surrogacy as dozens of babies are left stranded and not claimed by foreign adoptive parents because of the pandemic.
After the 9/11 attacks, the United States threw out international law and established a surveillance society, writes Margot Patterson. Covid-19 calls for a less heavy-handed approach, but will we realize that?
How we choose to behave during the Covid-19 pandemic reveals who we are and whom we want to be, writes Michael Rozier, S.J. It is a time to rediscover true virtues.