Commentaries
Today’s lessons from ancient Monte Cassino
Effie Caldarola recalls the World War II bombing raid that reduced one of the world's most important monasteries to rubble. But the Benedictine rule and a renewed cautionary tale of war remain.
U.S. Black Catholic nuns are overlooked desegregation pioneers
Shannen Dee Williams tells of the mid-20th century work of groundbreaking professor and religious, Sister Frances Millicent Douglass, and the urgency of truth-telling in schools.
Our role as peacemakers in the world
Effie Caldarola can spot peacemakers because they are listeners, people of positive attitudes, people who see a problem and try to solve it with humanity and love.
What makes a peacemaker?
Peacemaking is active, sacrificial and sacramental, which means working for justice and reconciliation often outside our comfort zone, writes Nigerian American Ogechi Akalegbere.
Clean of heart: Turning back to God
Can't find those sunglasses until you realize they're sitting on your head? Father Cassidy Stinson knows the feeling, and sees a parallel to rediscovering Jesus' gaze of mercy.
The blessing of coming clean with God
Maureen Pratt reflects on the beatitude that, inspired by faith and with humble singleness of heart, we can take heart -- a pure heart -- and one day, see God.
The Splendor of Truth: How to live by learning from God
People have the freedom to avoid evil and do good, and by walking with God we learn how to live rightly in the world, writes Father Eric Banecker in the first of his series on Catholic moral theology.
Partners in service generate hope for many
Sarah Hanley tells how the partnership of the Catholic Foundation and the Catholic Charities Appeal is the source of help to hundreds of thousands in the Philadelphia region each year.
Latin America fired up about synodality
Spanish-speaking Catholics did a superb job coming together for a full week to talk about dreams, visions and challenges for the church in the continent, writes Hosffman Ospino, who hopes U.S. Catholic do something similar, and soon.
Youth know how climate change is like hairspray
Children understand that climate change is working unseen more than adults who act as if it is not there, writes Dan Misleh. We must rise to the threat, lower the temperature on our civic discourse and embrace disillusioned young people.