Life is really tough. Life is particularly tough for teenagers who see no future in front of them but death or jail or an endless grind of stress and survival. It is tough for their parents and ...

John Garvey, the outgoing president of the Catholic University of America, recently released his new book, “The Virtues” that wraps up his twelve year tenure at the university (Credit: Catholic ...

My first encounter with the phrase “hierarchy of truths” did little to endear it to me. Early in my Jesuit formation, I once ventured that the well-known doctrinal disagreements among ...

Indeed, communism is the deadliest ideology, by far, that has ever plagued the planet. Its practitioners have killed more than 100 million people worldwide through unproved war, mass executions, ...

I have already undertaken two columns on the U.S. bishops' national synthesis of synodal reports, the first praising the synthesis for its candor and comprehensiveness, and the other focusing on the ...

This is the cover of Anna Rowland s book, ”Towards a Politics of Communion. ” Rowlands writes about how Catholic social teaching is not just about promoting social justice, but about living as ...

Usually, we can use summer as a time of recharge and rest, a time to revise syllabi and explore new readings to use in our classes. A time for digging into our research, attending conferences and ...

The initiative, backed publicly by 125 people including priests, religion teachers, and Church employees, also appealed for blessings and “access to the sacraments” for same-sex couples. Bishop Helmut ...

(RNS) — Labor Day is approaching, and just a few days later I will begin teaching my fall classes. Like every fall semester, the largest class I’ll teach will be on Catholic social teaching. This ...

The putting green is typically encountered on bright sunny days at local golf courses. But for a group of third- to eighth-grade boys at St. Michael’s School in the inner city of Fall River, ...