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June 2018

June 29, 2018
The polarization of American politics is reflected in a like polarization of politics around the...
June 26, 2018
There is no immigration crisis on the southern border. That's a lie. There is, however,...
June 15, 2018
The forcible separation of children from their parents has a long history in the United...
June 08, 2018
We ... view our work first as a religious obligation, but also as a practical...

May 2018

May 29, 2018
We are mostly comfortable middle class people exercising a sort of Catholic noblesse oblige, often with...
May 17, 2018
We all know the Mass-hopper: that restless type who constantly whines that he can’t take...
May 09, 2018
Can you imagine a conference and exhibition at the New York Public Library titled, "Words...
May 07, 2018
Wisdom from the Babylonian Talmud (Baba Bathra 10a). Ten strong things have been created in...
May 02, 2018
  The Last Christians: Stories of Persecution, Flight, and Resilience in the Middle East Author:...

April 2018

April 27, 2018
My question is this: Why the hell is a Catholic priest serving as chaplain to...
April 05, 2018
Fifty years ago today, on the morning after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.,...

October 2017

October 13, 2017
Babylon is indeed falling. But then, Babylon is always falling, which is to say that...

August 2017

August 21, 2017
Yesterday morning I picked up my friend, Issa Umi, at the suburban train stop. He...
August 08, 2017
How to understand Pope Francis? Despite the apparent dyspepsia his arrival has caused among some of...

July 2017

July 31, 2017
Art, says Michael Martin, has the potential to create a new Gospel every day. "Not...
July 14, 2017
On the surface, it would seem so; in Scripture, there are nearly 3,000 verses concerned...
July 11, 2017
Not long after Pope Francis' election in 2013, we friends around Solidarity Hall began to...
July 02, 2017
Like some hack sportswriter who skips the game but writes his piece by listening on...

May 2017

May 16, 2017
Raymond Sickinger, a professor of history at Providence College, has written an impressive new biography...
May 10, 2017
It’s sadly become somewhat de rigueur, particularly but not exclusively on the American political right,...

April 2017

April 26, 2017
How wonderful it would be if solidarity, this beautiful and, at times, inconvenient word, were...
April 24, 2017
"How can I make you realize the misery of the poor? How can I make...
April 21, 2017
If you have any degree of devotion to, affection for, or interest in Dorothy Day,...

March 2017

March 25, 2017
Myself I've never met a saint of the Church and I've only met one person...

January 2017

January 09, 2017
On Friday, January 20th, Donald Trump will be inaugurated as the 45th President of the...

December 2016

December 24, 2016
To all people of good will fighting for social, economic, and environmental justice, defending the...
December 23, 2016
[A review of Nothing to Vote For: The Futility of the American Electoral Process, by Daniel...

November 2016

November 29, 2016
Dispossessed of jobs and their dignity for a generation now or more, the Trump voters...
November 22, 2016
"Believe the autocrat. He means what he says. Whenever you find yourself thinking, or hear...
November 21, 2016
I knew my involvement in civic matters in northwest Indiana would eventually take me to...
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