Though the end of the world did not come as the Mayans predicted (or most likely did not predict), indigenous peoples throughout the world continue to experience threats to their existence. Since Vatican II, the Catholic Church in Latin America has made a radical departure from much of its previous history and is now often… Read More By Saying Your Name, Mary
To the Martyrs of the UCA By Luis Sebastian I saw you reach port, one by one, your ships laden with achievements and the prizes caught in your nets in a few years of intense labor. I saw you arrive with bouquets of carnations red like the blood of my people, cut at night, still… Read More To the Martyrs of the UCA
This election season, women decisively rejected the obscene way the word “rape” was used in the service of proving ideological purity. Now that election season is finally over, we have the opportunity to work together to confront this profound violation of human dignity. We can change things so that one in six women will no… Read More Rape Remains Rape
When six Sikh men and women in Oak Creek, Wisconsin were murdered while at worship, for the first time in many years I thought of my Sikh uncle. In the weeks that followed the shooting, I found myself talking with my mother about him and his personality, history, brothers, sisters, and friends. In the 1960s,… Read More Religious Freedom and Dialogue: From Vatican II to Oak Creek
Am I my sister’s keeper? Sister Simone Campbell asked that question recently at the Democratic National Convention. Personally, as much as I tend to focus on the broad outlines of policies and laws or philosophize about the true nature of the common good, sometimes it comes down to pretty literal questions. Over the past few… Read More Am I My Sister’s Keeper?
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