Pope Francis' legacy with LGBTQ people mirrors the example of Jesus: Francis was not afraid to be present with us, reaching out his hand and holding eye contact with us as fellow members of the body of Christ.
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."
Theologian and ethicist Margaret Farley begins not by talking, but by listening, by offering her merciful attention and accompaniment as another human being begins to articulate their own experiences and troubles.
"Contrary to what a lot of people see or think, there is more protest and resistance to Trump than you see or read in the mainstream media," Eric Stoner tells John Dear.
Dropping bombs and killing drug dealers may look good on television, Thomas Reese writes, but the real war on drugs occurs in treatment programs, which are terribly underfunded.
In this week's episode of "The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast," John Dear talks to the founder and executive director of Equal Justice Initiative about his work to serve people on death row.
