"When people's lives expose the limits of our existing frameworks, the appropriate Christian response is not immediate dismissal but deeper discernment," Maxwell Kuzma writes.
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.
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.
There is a Catholicism that remains largely invisible not only in JD Vance's memoir Communion, but also in Bishop Robert Barron's recent conversation with the vice president about his faith.
On this week's episode of "The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast," John Dear hosts Catherine Meeks, founder of the Turquoise and Lavender Institute for Transformation and Healing.
"What we were learning from the World Cup in its early phase was that sport can be experienced as a human phenomenon with internal goods or intrinsic rewards," writes Patrick Kelly.
Technology, detached from ethics and responsibility, will make wartime decisions about life and death more rapid and impersonal, the pope writes in the final chapter of Magnifica Humanitas.
At some point beyond the current chaos, our children and grandchildren will be able to read the accumulated record and they will have to contend with the fact that we were complicit in a national era of cruelty.