The New Magisterium
Apr 13, 2021 by Tom Roberts (National Catholic Reporter) Sean Fieler was once asked to name “the thinkers or donors” who have influenced how he practices his considerable philanthropy.“There’s a good…
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Suffering and Resurrection Are Universal Phenomena and We Are Saved Together
Richard Rohr, April 9th, 2021 I am convinced that the Gospel offers us a holistic understanding of salvation. If we understand the resurrection as a universal phenomenon, we can see this…
Review of John Cornwell’s latest book, “Church, Interrupted” by Austen Ivereigh
A welcome interruption, in La Croix and Commonweal, March 2021 Every new book on the Francis pontificate has the advantage of being more up-to-date than its predecessors, and John Cornwell…
Becoming the Church We Say We Are: An interview with Olga Marina Segura
The number one question that every white Catholic has to ask themselves is, “How have I been complicit in white supremacy, and how can I be better?” You need to…
The Institute for Christian Socialism: Confronting the world’s captivity to capitalism and claiming, embodying, and promoting the radical socialism of Christian faith and life
ChristianSocialism.com – Our Mission Our mission is to support US churches, their members, and institutions in confronting the world’s captivity to capitalism and in claiming, embodying, and promoting the radical…
Broken bread stands for broken bodies: James Baldwin wrote that to be born black or a person of color in America means that you must “give up all hope of communion”
SEEKING COMMUNION: RELIGIOUS RITES AND CIVIL RIGHTS, by AARON E. SANCHEZ OCT 4, 2018 My son and daughter’s favorite part of church is communion. They can finally leave their seats…
Marx, Hegel, and the Critique of Religion: A Response
March 15, 2021 • By Martin Hägglund THIS ESSAY DEVELOPS further the immanent critique of religion that I pursue in my book This Life. Following Marx, I argue that social…
Worker priests: the next generation
March 2, 2021, Worker priests: the next generation: The worker-priest movement, which became popular in France in the 1940s, has all but disappeared. But one “young” priest is keeping the…
