Vice President JD Vance wants women to have more babies, but he should learn from the Catholic bishops how to make having children more affordable and appealing.
The timing of Pope Francis' appeal to those "bombarded by technology" couldn't have been better. Because it's increasingly easy to imagine that robots can have hearts like ours.
For some Catholic couples, the church's teaching on contraception feels insufficient and exclusive. And for a long time, I believed I had no options that protected both my health and my marriage.
One of the pope's greatest achievements will have been his engagement with the humanities and humanity — with a deep understanding of the challenges it faces.
On this week's episode of "The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast," John Dear takes a deep dive into Luke 10, where Jesus sends out disciples to disarm, heal and dismantle the empire through radical peacemaking.
Pope Francis said the Trump administration's policy of mass deportation "damages the dignity of many men and women, and of entire families, and places them in a state of particular vulnerability and defenselessness."
In the latest episode of "The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast," Shane Claiborne talks to John Dear about the need to respond to ongoing global violence and environmental destruction.
Almost every country has committed to preventing child labor, but the issue persists through entrenched systemic drivers: the demand for cheap, fast production and the impunity of corporations that profit from the vulnerable.
While Douthat and I disagree on many things, we can both affirm that there is something "more" to our lives and the universe than generally meets the eye or that can be explained purely by empirical analysis.
