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October 2020

October 27, 2020

A Catholic Mom’s Response to Fr. Meeks

Kristin Putnam, the author of this post, is a mom to 8, founder of NFPAware.com,...

September 2020

September 07, 2020

A Beautiful Memoir of Waging Peace

Is a history of the Catholic Worker movement even possible, given the innately anarchic nature...

August 2020

August 24, 2020

Guest Post: A Letter from a TLM Catholic Who Stands with BLM

The author of this guest post, Jacob Robbins (a nom de plume), is the son...

June 2020

June 26, 2020

Where Are the Churches?

Image via www.nd.edu What year are we living in — or reliving? That is, what year of...

May 2020

May 04, 2020

Shalom versus Pax: On Recovering Ivan Illich

Faith Seeking Conviviality, a new book from Samuel Ewell, a U.K.-based social entrepreneur, is grounded...

April 2020

April 13, 2020

How to Understand the Great Silence We’re In

The unimaginable has occurred. Not only in the form of a deadly virus sweeping the...

March 2020

March 30, 2020

A Solitary Figure in St. Peter’s Square

Thick darkness has gathered over our squares, our streets and our cities; it has taken...

March 17, 2020

Voices of Mondragon

David Herrera is a retired professor of education at the University of San Diego. In...

February 2020

February 28, 2020

We Drink from Our Own Wells

A question for these troubled times in the Church and perhaps in our personal faith...

February 17, 2020

Arizmendi’s Big House: Mondragón and the Culture of Cooperation

“It’s like a big house. A big house that belongs to everybody.” (Comment by a...

January 2020

January 19, 2020

What is Catholic Economics? An Upcoming Conversation with John Medaille

Asking what the term Catholic economics might mean strikes some people — too many, actually — as like asking...

January 06, 2020

Hearing Ancient Voices

I spent part of the Christmas break this year in the (virtual) company of a...

December 2019

December 31, 2019

Remembering a Black Catholic Cooperativist: Fr. Albert McKnight

The upcoming "Economy of Francesco" event (previously described here) in Assisi March 26 – 28 will be...

December 18, 2019

A New Catholic Voice for a New Economy

Laudato Si’: perhaps the most important papal document since Rerum Novarum, Pope Francis’ “eco-encyclical” arrived...

December 12, 2019

Richard Rodriguez and the Browning of America

“I write about race,” states Richard Rodriguez, author of the extraordinary Brown, the Last Discovery...

December 02, 2019

Friendship with the Poor

This essay by Audrey Davis originally appeared in Radically Catholic in the Age of Francis....

November 2019

November 21, 2019

When Dorothy Day Met Hannah Arendt

At the May 21, 1972 commencement exercises at the University of Notre Dame, Dorothy Day...

November 15, 2019

Getting Distributism Right

It's the Catholic vision of the Shire: many small landholder families, owning the tools of...

November 11, 2019

How I Survived RCIA (Maybe You Can Too)

[ Another post on the general theme of becoming a “Street Catholic,” in which I offer...

November 04, 2019

How I Became a Street Catholic

I'm a Boomer, a former Cold Warrior, and a Catholic convert who came into the...

October 2019

October 31, 2019

After the Amazonian Synod: New Winds Blowing

While I may be in a distinct minority among American Catholics, my spirits are rising....

October 28, 2019

Intégrisme as anti-theology

[This is a guest post from Matthew Cooper, who blogs at the Heavy Anglo-Orthodox.] Readers...

October 21, 2019

The Indigenous Wisdom of Buen Vivir at the Synod

From the grateful welcome given to the Three Magi (i.e., pagan wise men) at Bethlehem...

October 14, 2019

A Litmus Test for Integral Ecology: Amazonia

What’s going on this month at the Amazonian Synod in Rome, we need to remember,...

October 10, 2019

“There is no such thing as just war.”

In less than two weeks, a group of seven Catholic peace activists will be put...

October 07, 2019

From Aparecida to the Amazonian Synod

The Marian spirituality of the Church in Latin America is everywhere to see, particularly in...

October 03, 2019

Sacrifice and Reconciliation in Africa

In 2008, Fr. Emmanuel Katongole, a Ugandan priest born in 1960 of Rwandan parents (one...

September 2019

September 30, 2019

The Strange Death and Life of the Pact of the Catacombs

I’m fascinated by the story of the once-secret “Pact of the Catacombs” and its role...

September 26, 2019

“The Death of the Forest is the End of Our Life”

Wilson Pinheiro, murdered in 1980. Vicente Canas, stabbed to death in 1987. Chico Mendez, assassinated...

September 24, 2019

Going Out to the Peripheries! (About Our Relaunch)

Here’s how my Solidarity Hall colleague, Mark Gordon, launched this column, named for Dorothy Day,...

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