Three moments in the history of the Church's battle against the ancient shame, slavery.
Following the butchery at the Paris magazine Charlie Hebdo, we are in the middle of another blizzard of post-facto hash-tag bravery.
It is difficult to conceive a more retrograde idea than to maintain that the experience of one person cannot be shared, understood, or evaluated by another person.
The most fundamental truth about man is that he has been made by God, who is Himself love.
Christians through the ages have sought to take the example and words of Jesus to heart and to live them in social settings very different from ancient Palestine. Catholic social teaching is an offspring of this effort.
Pope Francis has ignited a useful and necessary conversation about our responsibilities to the poorest of the poor — those who some may be tempted to write out of the script of history as hopeless cases.
We need to pray that our elected federal officials will find the courage in this new year of Our Lord, 2014, to finally pass real immigration reform.
Imagine someone appealing to Lord Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scouts, to justify the activities of gangs in Los Angeles.