In his position, others might have begun to hate the world. Instead, Thomas Merton found he could not leave it alone.

Last month, Jason Stockley, the white police officer who killed Anthony Lamar Smith, a 24-year-old black man, was acquitted. How did the city of St. Louis respond?

The saints and heroes of our faith have much to teach us about our contemporary political context.

Church leaders call for peace amidst demonstrations against the acquittal of a white police officer in the murder of an African-American man.

Probably most Americans can agree that Confederate monuments should never have been erected, but dismantling them is a different story for many citizens.