On this week's episode of "The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast," John Dear reflects on Pope Francis as the most radical, most progressive, most nonviolent, most prophetic, most peace-activist-oriented pope in history.
We have all experienced loss and grief and death. Why is it so easy to take Jesus' crucifixion for granted? How should we acknowledge his sacrifice during this Holy Week?
For weeks now, the federal government has pursued a "shock and awe" campaign of aggressive threats and highly visible operations of questionable legality that go far beyond mere immigration "enforcement."
The New Yorker magazine has managed to insult Christians and Jews alike with a cartoon depicting the Last Supper in an April issue, writes columnist Phyllis Zagano.
William Treanor, dean of Georgetown University Law Center, remembers scholar and canon lawyer Jesuit Fr. Ladislas Orsy: "He was, in every way, a giant, and a truly lovely person, and his legacy is a great one."
The decadeslong effort to make unrestricted capitalism compatible with Catholic teaching keeps running into obstacles in Vatican II documents, papal encyclicals, bishops' pastoral letters, and Christian Scriptures.
Slashing lifesaving aid, writes Delaware Sen. Chris Coons, shows the world "that we are not a reliable partner defined by its compassion, but an unreliable one defined by cruelty and indifference."
