"There is always the risk that we will forget we are merely playing pretend and begin living inside our own fictions. Or that we become so resigned to this state of affairs that we forget that things used to be different, and could still be."
This October saw the first known transfer of Church-owned land to a tribal nation as an explicit act of reparation. What can the experiment teach the rest of the Church?
The late Robert Coles spent years meeting subjects where they were, from the first integrated classrooms to migrant farms to the Appalachian mountains.
Bernd Roeck traces the roots of the Renaissance as far back as the sixth millennium BCE. His long view of history explores the “why” of Western culture’s success.
In 'Magnifica humanitas,' Pope Leo presents a genuinely universalist civilizational discourse, calling for a social order whose guiding principle is love.
In this three-part narrative podcast series, inaugural Centennial Fellow Aaron Robertson chronicles the rise, erosion, and defiant survival of Black Catholic Detroit.