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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,...

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...

March 2020

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...

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 02, 2019

Friendship with the Poor

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

November 2019

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...

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 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 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,...

June 2018

June 26, 2018

There Is No Immigration Crisis, But There Is a Crisis in The American Catholic Church

There is no immigration crisis on the southern border. That's a lie. There is, however,...

June 15, 2018

“The Christianity of This Land”

The forcible separation of children from their parents has a long history in the United...

June 08, 2018

Love and Citizenship

We ... view our work first as a religious obligation, but also as a practical...

May 2018

May 29, 2018

Balancing the Works of Mercy and the Works of Justice

We are mostly comfortable middle class people exercising a sort of Catholic noblesse oblige, often with...

May 17, 2018

Mass at the Peripheries

We all know the Mass-hopper: that restless type who constantly whines that he can’t take...

April 2018

April 27, 2018

Good News: Priest Out as US House Chaplain

My question is this: Why the hell is a Catholic priest serving as chaplain to...

April 05, 2018

The Mindless Menace of Violence

Fifty years ago today, on the morning after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.,...

October 2017

October 13, 2017

Babylon’s Falling: Recovering an Exilic Christian Consciousness

Babylon is indeed falling. But then, Babylon is always falling, which is to say that...

August 2017

August 21, 2017

The Word from Dr. Lowdown

Yesterday morning I picked up my friend, Issa Umi, at the suburban train stop. He...

August 08, 2017

Feeling the Francis Effect

How to understand Pope Francis? Despite the apparent dyspepsia his arrival has caused among some of...

July 2017

July 14, 2017

Does God Love the Poor More Than the Rich?

On the surface, it would seem so; in Scripture, there are nearly 3,000 verses concerned...

May 2017

May 16, 2017

The Life of “An Apostle of Charity”

Raymond Sickinger, a professor of history at Providence College, has written an impressive new biography...