By IHE Scholar Thomas Holman Pope Saint John Paul II’s fascination with the human person began early in his life. From the beginning of his priestly ministry through the end of his storied pontificate, the relationality of the human person remained a central theme. His dogged struggles against the evils of the various forms of […]

By IHE Scholar Lucia Silecchia Many of my deepest childhood memories are the timeless ones about family traditions, school events, summer vacations, late 1970s fashions, my cat, and adventures with friends. Along with these, I remember the significant place of the American Bicentennial in my earliest memories. I remember our family mailbox filled with literature from […]

By IHE Graduate Scholar Michael J. Bors “When an adventurer carries his gods with him into a remote and savage country, the colony he founds will, from the beginning, have graces, traditions, riches of the mind and spirit.” So wrote Willa Cather in Shadows on the Rock, her tale of early French-Catholic settlers in Québec. […]

By Lucia A. Silecchia Years ago, I read reports about a study positing that the American news media can bebiased toward reporting bad or negative news. What saddened me was the report’sassertion that negative articles are the ones most sought out by the public as reports ofbad news garner more clicks and public attention. Could […]

By MAHR student Veronica Smaldone Jakub Grygiel, professor in the Department of Politics at Catholic University, visited theMaster’s in Human Rights students in their Capstone course to share his perspective as an experton the history of American foreign policy and a former employee of the U.S. State Department. Dr. Grygiel explained that in the last […]

By IHE Graduate Scholar Marcela Duque  When Mother Teresa heard the words of Christ on the cross — “I thirst” — she found both her vocation to serve Christ “among the poorest of the poor” and the spirituality that would shape the vocation of those who joined her as Missionaries of Charity. She heard in […]

By Lucia A. Silecchia Every year, when I flip my calendar to December, thoughts of Christmas overwhelm me with anticipation of the joys to come and the great gift of Christ’s Nativity. Yet, when I open that same calendar to the month of March, my initial thought has not been, “Yeah! The Solemnity of the […]

How should Christians approach suffering, especially in Lent when it takes on a renewed focus through prayer, fasting, and almsgiving? This question is even more important as our culture seems to see suffering as something to avoid at all costs or something that only distracts from our purpose, flourishing, or meaning. Lent, however, allows us […]