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October 2015

October 14, 2015

Gun Violence and the Common Good

(Reposted with Permission from the Author) The mass shooting at Umpqua Community College has once again...

September 2015

September 20, 2015

Pope Francis’ Theology of Common Care

As Pope Francis' trip to the Philippines last January revealed, where Francis goes people pay...

August 2015

August 27, 2015

Pope Francis and the Republican Presidential Hopefuls: A Widening Divide

(Reposted with Permission from the Author) With Pope Francis increasingly focused on economic inequality, protecting...

August 16, 2015

Feeling the Bern? Maybe.

I’m intrigued by Bernie Sanders. When he initially announced his presidential bid for 2016, I...

August 01, 2015

Are Pope Francis’ views on climate change costing him supporters?

Like millions of other Christian environmentalists, I had been eagerly anticipating the release of “Laudato...

July 2015

July 03, 2015

Pope’s Encyclical: Authentic Human Development Has a Moral Character

(Reposted with permission.) Pope Francis' encyclical on the environment isn't an earth-shattering document. It's instead...

May 2015

May 25, 2015

Romero and Me

A young man named Mario graduated college at Eastern University May 9 as a triple major in...

March 2015

March 06, 2015

Is Catholic marriage and love possible for LGBT Catholics?

As Philadelphia prepares for the Pope’s visit and the World Meeting of Families, one would...

March 03, 2015

Poll: Climate Change is a Moral Issue

Climate change is a significant moral issue according to the recent survey conducted by Reuters

December 2014

December 03, 2014

Pope Francis to visit Philadelphia

Last month, Pope Francis announced he’s coming to Philadelphia in September 2015 for the World...

May 2014

May 09, 2014

What We See in Pope Francis

This piece by Wes Granberg-Michaelson was originally published by Sojourner's "God's Politics" blog on April 30th,...

February 2014

February 28, 2014

3 Coins in the Fountainhead

The radical philosophy of twentieth century author Ayn Rand is known by its’ title: Objectivism....