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For more than 100 years, Indigenous children were taken from their families and put into punitive boarding schools in a ...
29/08/2025

For more than 100 years, Indigenous children were taken from their families and put into punitive boarding schools in a systematic effort to annihilate Native culture. Recent television narratives from Indigenous creators don’t focus on the residential schools; yet lost children and ruptured families are a historical fact of Native life—woven into memories and held in generational trauma.

Indigenous-led television is expanding its small but powerful canon, offering stories that honor Native life and resilience.

Do you believe the world will literally end? How do you understand the Book of Revelation? What's the deal with the apoc...
29/08/2025

Do you believe the world will literally end?

How do you understand the Book of Revelation?

What's the deal with the apocalypse? Take our survey here.

Theories about the apocalypse abound, but what do Catholics in the pews actually believe about the end times? Take our survey.

Augustine, too, lived during a time when the world seemed to be crumbling. While he did not have to grapple with the rea...
29/08/2025

Augustine, too, lived during a time when the world seemed to be crumbling. While he did not have to grapple with the reality that our planet may soon become inhospitable to human life, he did live through the fall of Rome, which must have felt similarly apocalyptic. In his time, wealth inequality exploded, military violence abounded, and emperors became increasingly authoritarian and terrorizing.

Augustine lived at a time rife with threats and challenges similar to what we face today. How can his theology guide us in navigating them?

Here’s the reality: If you refuse to make even the smallest sacrifice for the sake of safety, you’re not a hero, and you...
28/08/2025

Here’s the reality: If you refuse to make even the smallest sacrifice for the sake of safety, you’re not a hero, and you don’t really care about defending people. If your response to a mass shooting is to rush out and buy more guns, you’re not an advocate for life.

If facts showed that giving up gun privileges would help create a more just and life-affirming society, would you be willing to do that?

We were glad to see a fellow Claretian ministry, the National Shrine of St. Jude (run by the Claretians in Chicago), hig...
28/08/2025

We were glad to see a fellow Claretian ministry, the National Shrine of St. Jude (run by the Claretians in Chicago), highlighted in a recent article.

At the shrine, pilgrims from all walks of life gather to place their intentions before God and find encouragement in St. Jude’s witness of faith.

Want to learn more about the shrine and its ministry of hope? Link in the comments!

We are deeply inspired by testimonies like this one, featured in the National Catholic Register, in which Richard C. Lukas details his family's experience with St. Jude's powerful intercession.

The National Shrine is honored to have been part of this family's journey, witnessing once again how St. Jude Thaddeus, Patron of the Impossible, brings light to situations that seem hopeless.

Read the article here: https://bit.ly/NCR-commentary

Catholics can gladly support government programs to help the poor meet their basic needs. According to Catholic social t...
27/08/2025

Catholics can gladly support government programs to help the poor meet their basic needs. According to Catholic social thought, every human has innate dignity as a creature of God and the right to attain basic needs such as food, shelter, and clothing. God’s followers in the Bible are told to take special care of the “orphans and widows,” those who can’t support themselves through their own work.

According to Catholic social thought, every human has the right to attain their basic needs.

Did Monica take loyalty too far by accepting her husband’s abuse? Did she overstep the healthy bounds of parental persis...
27/08/2025

Did Monica take loyalty too far by accepting her husband’s abuse? Did she overstep the healthy bounds of parental persistence when she forced her son to leave a woman he loved? Yes, and yes. But that doesn’t mean that we don’t have something to learn from Monica.

No, Monica should not have accepted abuse or overstepped her parental boundaries. But that doesn’t mean we have nothing to learn from her.

For the 230 Catholic institutions of higher education in the United States, the debate over DEI has additional theologic...
26/08/2025

For the 230 Catholic institutions of higher education in the United States, the debate over DEI has additional theological significance, relating to the nature of the person and the purpose of education. Catholic responses vary across a spectrum of views, with divisions that reflect the broader dispute in the secular arena.

DEI at Catholic schools has been a matter of debate for some time. As DEI initiatives come under fire, the debate heats up.

The logic of “collateral damage”—whereby we determine an acceptable human expenditure for some political, social, econom...
25/08/2025

The logic of “collateral damage”—whereby we determine an acceptable human expenditure for some political, social, economic, or other outcome—is not confined to the battlefield. It seeps into ordinary life as well. Throughout human history, political pundits have found it expedient to create a category of people who could be acceptably expendable for various outcomes.

Implicit in the idea of “collateral damage" is the assumption that some people are expendable—not just in war, but in everyday life.

“So much money is spent on buildings and so little on people, on social workers, on attendants, on doctors. Even the res...
25/08/2025

“So much money is spent on buildings and so little on people, on social workers, on attendants, on doctors. Even the resident doctors get little or nothing for their services. " Day wrote. She believed we needed to change the system. "We need to overthrow, not the government…but this rotten, decadent, putrid industrial capitalist system which breeds such suffering."

Day imagined an economic reality that honored the dignity of the human person, based on the unity of all in the mystical body of Christ.

Thank you to Catholic Outlook for sharing our interview with Bishop Evelio Menjivar-Ayala."All of sacred scripture is a ...
25/08/2025

Thank you to Catholic Outlook for sharing our interview with Bishop Evelio Menjivar-Ayala.

"All of sacred scripture is a story of mobility. From the beginning, there were migrants . . ."

Bishop Evelio Menjivar-Ayala speaks of his experience as a refugee from violence and how Catholics should act toward the strangers among us.

Wideness is the way of God. And yet here comes Jesus and the narrow gate! What are we to do with this narrow gate? Kelly...
24/08/2025

Wideness is the way of God. And yet here comes Jesus and the narrow gate! What are we to do with this narrow gate?

Kelly Adamson reflects on the readings for the twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time.

Kelly Adamson offers a reflection for the twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time, August 24, year C in the Roman missal.

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