After receiving a formal dispensation to leave the Franciscan order and priestly ministry, Daniel P. Horan reflects on his supportive transition into lay life, his recent marriage and his conversations with other former priests and religious.
With a U.S. cardinal declaring recently that "war is always evil," we are witnessing a pivotal moment in Catholic response to the activities of the most militant and powerful nation on earth.
In Magnifica Humanitas Pope Leo XIV warned against reducing people to "data and performance." All metrics, even those designed to measure happiness or flourishing, run that risk, argues Anthony Ahrens.
When Liam Myers' grandma sold her house last year, she didn't know it was to an AI data center developer. Now, her grandson wrestles with the loss — and what it means to remember.
Emma Cieslik connects early Catholic opposition to eugenics with contemporary disability theology that reveals how disabled people are created in God's image, and calls us to fight for their rights.
"The Eucharist opens us to justice and sharing, with a preferential concern for those who are burdened by poverty or marginalization," the pope writes.
Even when ideology is not at stake, the church lives in history, even while its foundations and its eschatological future transcend history, writes Michael Sean Winters.
On this week's episode of "The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast," John Dear talks about how Jesus as the God of life calls humanity out of the culture of war and death, and into the new life of peace.
