By Mollie Wilson O’Reilly in Commonweal Magazine, April 17, 2018 “A trend is accelerating rapidly at Catholic New York: that of blatant favoritism towards Latinos and blacks in the Archdiocese of New York.”…
All the saints will tell us that the process involves terrible confusion and frightening realizations that prod us beyond our safe boundaries and easy creeds. From confusion to faith Apr 14,…
By Joe Holland in La Croix, 14 April 2018 In their fascinating exchange on the clergy (“Imagine There’s No Clergy”), William M. Shea and David Cloutier seem unable to distinguish…
By Father Michael Kelly SJ in La Croix, 12 April 2018 There is one sociological observation by Jesus that never loses its currency in all manner of settings. When suffering…
By Dan Morris-Young (National Catholic Reporter) Apr 10, 2018 The Association of U.S. Catholic Priests has called on the U.S. bishops to assure that teachings of the Second Vatican Council become…
CHICAGO — While the rest of the Catholic Church is wringing its hands about the “nones” who have distanced themselves from organized religion, thousands of young people spent part of their winter vacation…
Our culture’s default narrative arc bends toward little-picture understandings of problems and solutions, hindering rather than advancing big-picture changes. Bales calls it: a framing mistake to focus a story’s conflict…
March 30, 2017 — President Donald Trump’s actions this week to reverse the steady progress being made in confronting the challenge of climate change are not only alarming and dangerous;…
