The sisters I met along the border know well the intractability of poverty, disease, and violence. That does not keep them from working to relieve them.
Museums have recently tried to expand our picture of Native American life, coupling indigenous art with contemporary American works. This approach has limits.
Massimo Faggioli comments on the legacy of Don Lugi Sturzo, the Italian priest who resisted fascism and insisted on the right of lay Catholics to engage actively in politics.
Kathryn Tanner offers a pointed theological critique of finance capitalism, which inverts the Christian understanding of human dignity and the dignity of work.
We need a truly international reckoning with the fact of mass migration, one in which wealthy countries actually confront climate change and food insecurity.