David Gibson, Catholic News Service
‘Ecclesiam Suam’ challenges us to dialogue in a polarized world
Polarization rules the day in our times, it commonly is claimed. Its strong walls, supported by misgivings, misunderstandings and fears, block individuals and groups...
Advent Week 2: This year we ask: where can God be...
Long months of the vicious COVID-19 pandemic preceded the arrival of this year's Advent season leading to Christmas. Neither Advent nor Christmas in 2020...
‘Fratelli Tutti’: Pope Francis’ new encyclical presents a formidable challenge
The social encyclical Pope Francis released in October extends a formidable challenge to us all, the challenge to create "a different culture." What kind...
United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights presents challenges more than...
"No one shall be held in slavery or servitude," the United Nations declared in the fourth article of its 1948 landmark Universal Declaration of...
Appalachia’s story: Reconnecting to a sense of place
Many people suffer the loss of "a sense of place" when a region that is like home to them is exploited or abused in...
In preparing to vote, aim to recognize what is at stake
What is at stake when we vote? The question echoes ceaselessly at election time.
Many prepare to vote by asking what is at stake for...
Patience: The coronavirus pandemic and the human family’s bonds
As the COVID-19 pandemic made its way around the globe in 2020, people of all races, ages and walks of life watched and waited....
Memories of St. John Paul II on his 100th birthday
Do I remember St. John Paul II? Yes, I remember him well.
I write of him as the centennial of his birth May 18, 1920,...
The Easter Vigil: Light overcomes darkness
"This is the night," the church sings out again and again in a poetic hymn dating far back in Christian history called the Exsultet....
Fasting to be the person God is calling
"We must love with our eyes open," Canterbury's Archbishop Justin Welby said last October. Saints, the Anglican leader advised, are people who are able...