In this photo exhibit, Scott Strazzante juxtaposes images from a cattle-ranching family and a family living in a subdevelopment several years later on the same land to reveal the differences, complexities, and similarities between farm life and suburbia life.

The life of Bartolome de Las Casas suggests that, for Christians living in privileged nations such as the United States, poverty in solidarity with the poor is a requirement of discipleship; the necessity of such solidarity is demonstrated by the United States Catholic bishops’ conference’s inability to grasp the true nature of its country’s relationship to Haiti.

Read within the context of his first two encyclicals, DEUS CARITAS EST and SPE SALVI, Pope Benedict XVI’s third encyclical, CARITAS IN VERITATE, presents a unified philosophical and theological vision that grounds authentic human development in the fundamental Christian virtues of hope and love.

A critical review by James K. A. Smith of Francis Beckwith’s RETURN TO ROME.

In this poem, Austin Alexis compares the recovery of a Haitian earthquake survivor to the beauty of a poem.

This essay exposes the Christological bankruptcy of theodicy in the modern age, revealing the essential nature of any system of knowledge as being open to epistemological crises, especially with regard to Christianity.

Dubai and Nairobi represent two ends of the poverty/wealth spectrum, but which one is really wealthy?

In this essay, theologian J. Kameron Carter considers what’s wrong with theodicy questions, or questions about God, suffering, and evil, in relationship to the recent earthquake in Haiti.

The current worldwide economic crisis and financial meltdown can be understood as the inherent result of globalized consumer capitalism, a “capitalism without capital,” which in the analysis of philosopher Slavoj ?i?ek, could lead to fascism.