The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola have a structure which forms a counterpoint to racism and can help social activists in their confrontation with it.

Gloria Purvis and Sam Sawyer, S.J., discuss the Catholic imperative to form and obey one’s conscience, especially around two key voting issues: abortion and racism.

The centennial of James Baldwin's birth is an invitation to join the ranks of “the relatively conscious” who will help the nation engage in the metanoia needed to become the country that Baldwin constantly believed and hoped it could become.

After former president Donald Trump amplified unsubstantiated claims that Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, were eating pets, the state’s bishops called for solidarity with ‘our Haitian brothers and sisters.’

Loyalist paramilitaries played a central role in organizing the unrest in Belfast, but it was a surprise on both sides of the northern Irish border when they were joined by self-proclaimed “Irish patriots” from the Republic of Ireland.

Indigenous Catholics in New Mexico are reeling after an image of Christ as an Apache holy man was taken from a Mescalero mission. The church's pastor has fallen under suspicion of complicity in the removal.