Landmark Vatican conference rejects just war theory, asks for encyclical on nonviolence
National Catholic Reporter: The participants in a Vatican conference have bluntly rejected the Catholic Church's teachings on just war theory, saying they have too often been used to justify violent conflicts and the global church must reconsider Jesus' teachings on nonviolence.
National Catholic Reporter: The participants in a Vatican conference have bluntly rejected the Catholic Church's teachings on just war theory, saying they have too often been used to justify violent conflicts and the global church must reconsider Jesus' teachings on nonviolence.
Our political mandate
America: American politics has focused on many things in the six months since Pope Francis visited Congress, but not human dignity and the common good, says John Carr.
America: American politics has focused on many things in the six months since Pope Francis visited Congress, but not human dignity and the common good, says John Carr.
My love/hate relationship with leadership
Christianity Today: Leadership is good, biblical, and necessary, says Ed Stetzer.
Christianity Today: Leadership is good, biblical, and necessary, says Ed Stetzer.
We cannot fix people's grief, only sit with them, in their darkness
The (London) Guardian: Compassion literally means to suffer alongside. The greatest gift we can give the bereaved, with the loneliness that accompanies loss, is to not run away, says Giles Fraser.
The (London) Guardian: Compassion literally means to suffer alongside. The greatest gift we can give the bereaved, with the loneliness that accompanies loss, is to not run away, says Giles Fraser.
Flannery O'Connor: fiction fired by faith
Bearings: An interview with writer Angela Alaimo O'Donnell on the faith of Flannery O'Connor, the role of violence and the grotesque in O'Connor's stories, and what her life can teach aspiring writers.
Bearings: An interview with writer Angela Alaimo O'Donnell on the faith of Flannery O'Connor, the role of violence and the grotesque in O'Connor's stories, and what her life can teach aspiring writers.
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