Living Solidarity with the Rice Bowl One of the seven principles of our Catholic social teaching is solidarity – the truth that we are one human family and that loving our neighbor has global dimensions in a shrinking world. This principle...

Elizabeth “Bessie” Coleman was an aviator. Not an unusual career path for people these days – but Ms. Coleman was unique. In 1921 she became the first Black woman to ever earn a pilot’s license. Being a woman and being...

From February 23 entry in the "Living Lent Daily" from Loyola  Our Christian hope begins with inspiration. Jesus awakens us spiritually and plants within us the desire to live out of love, faith, wisdom, and justice. Gradually the vision of...

Each Lenten season our Rice Bowl project focuses on three different countries where Catholic Relief Services works. This year, we can virtually travel together to Madagascar, El Salvador and Timor-Leste. Hunger is a persistent problem in...

You may have seen news coverage recently of Cardinal Wilton Gregory, America’s first Black Cardinal. Some Catholics have expressed surprise that there were no Black American Cardinals before 2020. Here is what Cardinal Gregory had to say...