Pope’s Prayer Meeting: More Than Middle East Peace at Stake
This Sunday, Shimon Peres, president of Israel, and Mahmoud Abbas, president of Palestine, will join Pope Francis at the Vatican for a “prayer meeting for…
Where’s the Action on Other Moral Scandals?
By last weekend, nearly everyone had heard about the racist rant caught on tape, attributed to Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling, and released by…
Standing Up for Our Beliefs
Last weekend, more than 100 students gathered at St. Clement Parish in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago. Representing Catholic campus ministry centers from colleges…
A Lenten Focus on Catholic Social Tradition
This week in 1933, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was inaugurated as president, the last time the event was held in March. It was the first of…
Closer To Ending Poverty?
Last week marked the 50th anniversary of President Lyndon Johnson’s State of the Union address in which he declared “unconditional war on poverty in America.”…
Francis’ World
Pope Francis rocked the media again last week with the release of “Evangelii Gaudium,” (The Joy of the Gospel) an apostolic exhortation laying out his…
Believing in Respectful Conversation this Holiday Season
In New Hampshire this past weekend, Gov. Martin O’Malley, Democrat of Maryland, told more than 1,000 Democratic activists that pride in oneself and in one’s…
Rediscovering the Richness of Catholic Social Thought
I had the pleasure of rereading Economic Justice for All earlier this week as I was researching another writing project. The first time I encountered…
Shutdown Grief
This past weekend, I ran the Chicago Marathon. I sometimes use my time running to think of ideas for columns, hashing out arguments and counter-arguments,…
Lessons from Rome for DC?
The U.S. government is shut down. Have you noticed? Probably not. Planes are still flying. Trains are still moving. The post office is open, Social…
