The 1950 Jubilee Year was a landmark moment for American Catholics, who were coming into their own power—and wealth—during an era of Cold War upheaval.
Far outside the political spotlight on elite universities, community-college students across America are learning the skills of democratic participation.
The final twist in 'Conclave' is hardly sensationalistic: it raises real questions about how the Church accommodates people outside binaries of sex and gender.
Can I still keep using this Catholic education to understand the world if I’m no longer Catholic? Can I even still ask the curriculum’s questions if I’m no longer professing the faith that animates them?
For Henry David Thoreau, it is only as strangers that we can see each other as the bearers of divinity we really are. Alienation makes us present as closeness cannot.
Modern progressivism suffers from three prejudices, each woven into our understanding of key values: equality, toleration, individual freedom, and scientific advancement.
Like all human institutions, the Church has often failed. But it is more than its failures—and much more than the endless quarrels over Vatican II or sexual morality.
'Rather than frantic productivity for maximum impact, I am focusing on small contributions, done as well as I can and with as much care as I can give.'
