A delegation representing the National Basketball Players Association, a union representing professional athletes from the NBA, met with Pope Francis and spoke with him about their work in promoting social justice.
The players association said the group meeting the pope Nov. 23 included:
Years before a white Minneapolis police officer kneeled on George Floyd’s neck for nearly nine minutes, “Black Lives Matter” was already a polarizing statement in a country with deep racial fault lines. But as the phrase “Black Lives Matter” has become more
In an essay for Our Sunday Visitor, Pauline Sister Theresa Aletheia Noble writes that she “learned more about racism in my time as a punk rock atheist than I ever did as a Catholic.” She writes that, like her, “many young people
On May 1, Pope Francis sent an invitation to the event “The Economy of Francesco,” named after St. Francis of Assisi. The event will take place in Assisi, Italy, from March 26-28, 2020. It is an initiative to which young economists and
When Washington’s venerable National Press Club played host last spring to a panel with the eye-catching title “Cyber Attacks and Just War Theory,” its linking of an ancient ethical theory to cybersecurity reflected the contemporary relevance of just-war thinking. Of course, not