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October 2020

October 27, 2020
Kristin Putnam, the author of this post, is a mom to 8, founder of NFPAware.com,...

September 2020

September 07, 2020
Is a history of the Catholic Worker movement even possible, given the innately anarchic nature...

August 2020

August 24, 2020
The author of this guest post, Jacob Robbins (a nom de plume), is the son...

June 2020

June 26, 2020
Image via www.nd.edu What year are we living in — or reliving? That is, what year of...

May 2020

May 04, 2020
Faith Seeking Conviviality, a new book from Samuel Ewell, a U.K.-based social entrepreneur, is grounded...

April 2020

April 13, 2020
The unimaginable has occurred. Not only in the form of a deadly virus sweeping the...

March 2020

March 30, 2020
Thick darkness has gathered over our squares, our streets and our cities; it has taken...
March 17, 2020
David Herrera is a retired professor of education at the University of San Diego. In...

February 2020

February 28, 2020
A question for these troubled times in the Church and perhaps in our personal faith...
February 17, 2020
“It’s like a big house. A big house that belongs to everybody.” (Comment by a...

January 2020

January 19, 2020
Asking what the term Catholic economics might mean strikes some people — too many, actually — as like asking...
January 06, 2020
I spent part of the Christmas break this year in the (virtual) company of a...

December 2019

December 31, 2019
The upcoming "Economy of Francesco" event (previously described here) in Assisi March 26 – 28 will be...
December 18, 2019
Laudato Si’: perhaps the most important papal document since Rerum Novarum, Pope Francis’ “eco-encyclical” arrived...
December 12, 2019
“I write about race,” states Richard Rodriguez, author of the extraordinary Brown, the Last Discovery...
December 02, 2019
This essay by Audrey Davis originally appeared in Radically Catholic in the Age of Francis....

November 2019

November 21, 2019
At the May 21, 1972 commencement exercises at the University of Notre Dame, Dorothy Day...
November 15, 2019
It's the Catholic vision of the Shire: many small landholder families, owning the tools of...
November 11, 2019
[ Another post on the general theme of becoming a “Street Catholic,” in which I offer...
November 04, 2019
I'm a Boomer, a former Cold Warrior, and a Catholic convert who came into the...

October 2019

October 31, 2019
While I may be in a distinct minority among American Catholics, my spirits are rising....
October 28, 2019
[This is a guest post from Matthew Cooper, who blogs at the Heavy Anglo-Orthodox.] Readers...
October 21, 2019
From the grateful welcome given to the Three Magi (i.e., pagan wise men) at Bethlehem...
October 14, 2019
What’s going on this month at the Amazonian Synod in Rome, we need to remember,...
October 10, 2019
In less than two weeks, a group of seven Catholic peace activists will be put...
October 07, 2019
The Marian spirituality of the Church in Latin America is everywhere to see, particularly in...
October 03, 2019
In 2008, Fr. Emmanuel Katongole, a Ugandan priest born in 1960 of Rwandan parents (one...

September 2019

September 30, 2019
I’m fascinated by the story of the once-secret “Pact of the Catacombs” and its role...
September 26, 2019
Wilson Pinheiro, murdered in 1980. Vicente Canas, stabbed to death in 1987. Chico Mendez, assassinated...
September 24, 2019
Here’s how my Solidarity Hall colleague, Mark Gordon, launched this column, named for Dorothy Day,...
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