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We need a new story in which we are bound in love and justice to the tens of thousands of persons living and dying on our streets.
Despite the concerns that religious participation is fading, enough people still consider it vital to their life. In the face of this new moment, what are key ethical guideposts for executives to keep in mind?
There may be a connection between slavery and abortion, but it's not what most pro-life Catholics think it is.
An ethicist who supports nonviolence nonetheless finds practical and conceptual challenges when it is applied to the war in Ukraine.
The artistic brilliance of William Everson merits renewed attention. And so, too, does his canticle's anticipation of fundamental theological shifts in the understanding of faith and nature called for by Pope Francis.
At stake in matters of law and abortion are women's full moral agency and their right to bodily integrity.
Guns don't kill people; people kill people; but guns can habituate people to killing, and that is clearly what is happening in our culture now.
What does it mean to offer “thoughts and prayers” to those affected by mass shootings?
The U.S. Catholic Church should face our difficult past neither intent on saving national myths nor on vindicating postmodern identity theory. The essential inspiration should come from convictions of Christian faith.
Archbishop Gomez's speech criticizing social movements raises the question: Is Catholicism fit to respond to racism in the U.S.? Can we meet theologian Howard Thurman's demand for a credible Christianity?
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