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It is comforting to imagine we are making steady progress in combating racism. But it’s also misleading: we have done far too little in the last fifty years.

The American public demands peaceful conduct from citizens protesting police brutality and racism. Why doesn’t it expect the same of law enforcement?

The two often go together, and should: not just in Jesus’s life, but in our own. In light of racial injustice, though, righteous anger comes first.

Longtime peace activist Martin Gugino represents a face of Catholicism that Donald Trump would not know from the ‘powerful’ Catholics around him.

Higher education is not merely a process of downloading data, or meeting via Zoom. The communal learning process requires a real campus.

James Baldwin’s ‘The Fire Next Time’ reveals the destructive tendency of white Americans—and white American Christians most of all—to avoid self-scrutiny.

The reaction to Tom Cotton’s ill-conceived essay is not just a step on the slippery slope to intellectual conformity. It is illiberalism, full stop.

A new, polyphonic collection with poems by more than a hundred Latinx writers responds to the vexed problem of identity with expansiveness, not reductionism.

For cystic fibrosis patients, recent medical breakthroughs have offered a new life: like Lazarus, they are unwrapping their bandages and re-entering the world.

The future will require a sustained political effort to shift our collective understanding of what the economy really is.

We all make sacrifices in response to the pandemic. Great or small, they allow us to consider what we truly need, and how we can help one another.

A gay Catholic priest speaks about living fully, courageously, and truthfully in God’s all-encompassing love.

Defending racist and violent policing as the result of individual “bad apples” doesn’t just obscure larger systemic problems. It hinders the pursuit of justice.