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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...

December 2019

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 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 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 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 07, 2019

From Aparecida to the Amazonian Synod

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

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...

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...

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...

May 10, 2017

Jesus, Taxes, and Charity

It’s sadly become somewhat de rigueur, particularly but not exclusively on the American political right,...

April 2017

April 26, 2017

Francis meets TED, Talks About ‘Solidarity’

How wonderful it would be if solidarity, this beautiful and, at times, inconvenient word, were...

April 24, 2017

My Most Grievous Fault: The Moral Problem of Wealth

"How can I make you realize the misery of the poor? How can I make...

January 2017

January 09, 2017

A Lawless Man

On Friday, January 20th, Donald Trump will be inaugurated as the 45th President of the...

December 2016

December 24, 2016

Good News & Great Joy

To all people of good will fighting for social, economic, and environmental justice, defending the...

November 2016

November 29, 2016

The Ultimate Deal: Privatizing the Presidency

Dispossessed of jobs and their dignity for a generation now or more, the Trump voters...

August 2016

August 29, 2016

Novena for Peace: August 29 – September 6, For an End to the Injustice of Exploitation

Join us at Novena For Peace! General Intentions: For an end to the injustice of exploitation....

August 20, 2016

The Novena for Peace Begins Today

Eighty-one days of prayer for justice, peace, and racial reconciliation in the United States. We...

August 01, 2016

Praying for Miracles

Every summer for the past 19 years, the Oscar Romero Catholic Worker House in Oklahoma...

June 2016

June 09, 2016

Dumb Things I Used to Believe

Having come into the Church as a convert on Easter Sunday, 1986, I am what’s...

April 2016

April 29, 2016

The Father of Catholic Social Teaching

“Charity is the Samaritan who pours oil on the wounds of the traveler who has...

April 26, 2016

Who Does God REALLY Love?

I have a friend named Trish who frequently corners me after Mass to ask questions...

April 08, 2016

Deconstructing the Corner Drugstore

If you haven't read Jeremy Beer's The Philanthropic Revolution: An Alternative History of American Charity,...

April 05, 2016

Art For An Integral Ecology

A. Vonn Hartung is a Puerto Rico-based artist who works across a variety of media, including...

April 01, 2016

Can We Just Grow Jobs?

Those of you who know me know I have a few hobby horses I come...

March 2016

March 30, 2016

Boxed In

A few years ago, my wife and I were assigned a case through our local...