A Black city tried to rein in abusive policing. Then Trump’s task force arrived.

a novel of course will do one

Gavin Newsom calls comments ‘deranged and dangerous’ after president tells Nebraska rally: ‘They can take out a city’

Since Catholic voters were pivotal in helping re-elect Trump, they could now step up to start trying to fix this mess.

Lázaro Roberto and the Zumví Archive weave memory and identity.

She knew how to use her talent and wealth for good

And fighting it should be at the heart of the Democratic agenda

How did a Baptist, Kentucky farmer come to sound so much like the Magisterium of the Catholic Church?

without using your voice sing me through

What 1000 comments on the death penalty taught me about our preaching

A drummer’s thoughts on machine consciousness.

Burglund students walked out in response to the expulsions of their classmates and the murder of Herbert Lee.

Wendell Berry's influence is best measured by those who changed their lives because of his work.

Kharkiv Meditations, 9/10

This sermon was preached at St. Martin’s Episcopal Parish in Williamsburg, VA.

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Under the banner of “Dig, Baby, Dig,” the Trump administration is supercharging an already powerful mining industry. What will happen to vulnerable plants and animals?

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Kharkiv Meditations 8/10

The ALL Fall Festival blended arts, music, food, and stories at New Castle’s Berry Center, as hundreds gathered to honor Wendell Berry’s legacy and enjoy a day full of crafts, books, and local flavor.

all beyond me no stakes for me

On International Day of Non-Violence, revisiting a meditation on anger

Housekeeping and history in the Dallas drought of 2026

The word has vanished from the conference’s instructions to its preachers. The question is why that matters, and what it asks of Catholic consciences a month before the midterms.

Dear Read­ers: There is a deep pain inside me, about which I must write: my dec­ades-long anguish about the plight of the wolf, Canis lupus. These creatures have been per­se­cuted for cen­tur­ies: ext...

In Chicago, progressive alderpeople held up a city contract until a private equity firm was forced to dispatch Omni Air International, protecting thousands of immigrants from deportation.

L’il Lucky Duckette: “The poor little duck who’s rich in luck.”

if money were distance well you know

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O God, make speed to save us!

where I go I go forth and

The Catholics on the nation’s highest court include Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Sonia Sotomayor, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett.

Christa Pike was convicted of murdering a classmate in 1995. It was not clear what went wrong in the execution or what her current medical condition was.

Why we can’t have a death penalty

Americans need to take action to support immigrants who are in this country without documents and are suffering under the government's mass deportation policy, Washington Cardinal Robert W. McElroy sa...