Overcoming Hate With Love: International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the Jubilee Year
COMMENTARY: Pope St. John XXIII was central to maintaining the memory of World War II’s persecuted Jews.
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Independence Day and Catholic Citizens: Patriotic Witness in Word and Deed to Truth and Justice
COMMENTARY: One of the most vital services that Catholic Christians provide to our nation is our witness to truth and the reasonableness of reason. This is especially true of our witness to the natural moral law (knowable by all who use right reason) and to the norms of social justice.
Thinking With the Mind of Christ
COMMENTARY: May we, as individuals and as communities of faith, think and act biblically.
Noncombatant Immunity and the Death of Innocents
COMMENTARY: War is always a defeat for humanity. All of us are called to be peacemakers.
Russia’s Invasion Is Defeat for Humanity — How Should We Respond?
COMMENTARY: While direct military intervention is not warranted, other punitive responses are in order.
Pearl Harbor Day at 80: What Lessons Have We Learned?
COMMENTARY: Recovery and Reconciliation From the ‘Day That Will Live in Infamy’
Veterans Day Gratitude: When ‘Thank You for Your Service’ Is Not Enough
COMMENTARY: Gratitude is a virtue required as part of justice whereby we remember and appreciate the service done for us and the willingness to show kindness in return.
The West and Iran: Catholic Wisdom in Uncertain Times
COMMENTARY: The just-war tradition has much wisdom to offer in this moment of heightened tension between the United States and Iran.
