John McGreevy, dean of the College of Arts and Letters and professor of history at the University of Notre Dame, writes in Commonweal: Exiled in the United States after the German army roared through his native France, feverishly working to rally anti-fascist Catholics in North and South America, philosopher Jacques Maritain insisted in a 1941… Read More World War II, Vatican II, and Catholic Support for Democracy

Bishop Daniel Flores of Brownsville writes: Separating immigrant parents and children as a supposed deterrent to immigration is a cruel and reprehensible policy. Children are not instruments of deterrence, they are children. A government that thinks any means is suitable to achieve an end cannot secure justice for anyone.

Pope Francis has asked young people to spend two minutes a day reading the Gospel, saying that this simple practice is enough to change their lives.

Cardinal Blase Cupich responds to a Chicago Tribune editorial that “attempted to provide a counterpoint to Pope Francis’ call for economic justice”: The Vatican recognizes that the Great Recession was not simply a financial crisis, but a moral one. A handful of financial institutions and traders began selling exotic securities that were largely unknown, poorly… Read More Cardinal Cupich: Why does our economy leave so many behind?