Politics

It is no exaggeration to say that our times are Apocalyptic, in the sense that we seem to have come to a point at which all the hidden, mysterious dynamism of the "history of salvation" revealed in the Bible has flowered into final and decisive crisis.

The Catholic faith of Latin America is one of the great trump cards of the Church—at least in theory.

Beyond the neon signs and Coke bottles, another America survives—as of now

What is the meaning of the new religious interest in high places?

Late developments in the Quemoy crisis leave the situation as dangerous and confused as ever. But there's a good chance that the Administration will win its gamble in the Far East.

"We were, frankly, hoping for jail. Perhaps jail, we thought, would put another compulsion on us, of being more truly poor."

From the archives: Walker Percy on the need for white, upper-class Southerners to move beyond Stoicism.

We need Christian politicians who are guided by moral law, but realistic, who feel called not to judge the world, but to save it.

Are we now at the end of a drama or of an act?

Led by bishops and anti-Communist Vietnamese officers, embattled Catholic villagers are struggling to resist the Communist-dominated Viet Minh.

Employers' greed, power politics, exploitation, child labor, and general neglect have produced a situation which is the scandal of the world.

"Those whose theology he shares frequently distrust him because of his politics, and those with whom he feels at home politically may doubt him because of his theology."

From the archives: In one of the most popular articles from the 1940s, George H. Dunne recognizes and condemns institutional racism in the Church.

A manifesto by European Catholics sojourning in America.

Meals are so important. The disciples knew Christ in the breaking of bread. We know Christ in each other in the breaking of bread... gluten in wheat is like flesh.

The story of three men convicted of a murder of which they knew nothing.

Jacques Maritain explores what makes war just and justifiable.

What is the object of social justice according to the thought of the Pope? Undoubtedly, it is the common good.

The terrain to which the refugee can go is fearfully restricted.

Dorothy Day lays out her program for a vast system of Catholic Worker houses of hospitality.

Collective bargaining is not a right that can be forfeited at will—it is intrinsic to recognizing the dignity of the worker.

The social order envisioned by the New Deal resembles that demanded by Pope Pius XI in ‘Quadragesimo anno.’

President Roosevelt has gloriously led this nation toward a real reformation of its entire polity.

The Church is the strongest connecting link between the old world and the new