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September 2019

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 29, 2018

“Our Best Hope to Avoid As Much Violence As Possible”

The polarization of American politics is reflected in a like polarization of politics around the...

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...

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 09, 2018

Maritain and the Met Gala 2018

Can you imagine a conference and exhibition at the New York Public Library titled, "Words...

May 07, 2018

Ten Strong Things

Wisdom from the Babylonian Talmud (Baba Bathra 10a). Ten strong things have been created in...

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...

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...

April 2017

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...

April 21, 2017

Review of ‘The Reckless Way of Love’

If you have any degree of devotion to, affection for, or interest in Dorothy Day,...

March 2017

March 25, 2017

Find Your Own Calcutta

Myself I've never met a saint of the Church and I've only met one person...

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 14, 2016

Shelter From the Storm

The truth is, I'm going to be just fine during the Trump Administration. I 'm holding...

November 11, 2016

Radically Catholic in the Age of Trump

For several years now, I've attended daily Mass at St. Clare Church, where the average...

August 2016

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...

May 2016

May 27, 2016

Junger’s Hunger, And Ours

A couple of years ago, I took some members of a large Rwandan refugee family to a...

May 24, 2016

Preparing for President Trump

What I’m about write is not an exercise in partisan advocacy. I belong to neither...

May 18, 2016

Book Review: “Called to Community: The Life Jesus Wants for His People”

I write today for the purpose of recommending “Called to Community: The Life Jesus Wants...

May 11, 2016

The Fire This Time (Revisited)

This essay is adapted from the original which appeared at Vox Nova on August 23,...

April 2016

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...

March 2016

March 31, 2016

Mother Maria Skobtsova, Martyr of Sobornost’

By Matthew Franklin Cooper On the 31st of March, we celebrate the dies natalis of...