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Edited by Ken Chitwood (Bloomsbury, 2026)

“Da pope” is more than an interesting novelty. At a time when our country and world are as divided as Cubs and Sox fans, Pope Leo XIV has the potential to lead us away from our rivalries.

The founder of the largest gang intervention, rehabilitation and prison reentry program in the world is a mystic, a Jesuit priest who does not believe that God has a plan for your life. Having buried 260 young men and women, Father Greg Boyle rejects the idea that it is God’s plan that anyone should die of a gang member’s bullet.

The USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture is launching a new project that seeks to help faith leaders think about their preaching in an ever-changing social and cultural landscape.

Catholic sisters are working together across congregations and across the US/Mexico border to better serve people in need of housing, food, health care and immigration services. This video highlights the work of the Sisters Migrant Network for Economic Empowerment and the Sisters Border Network.

On Tuesday, September 26, 2023, the exhibition "Women of Integrity: Celebrating 175 Years of the Immaculate Heart Community" opened in USC's Doheny Memorial Library.

For the then 23-year-old Franciscan friar David Raimundo dos Santos, the exact day of truth was May 13, 1976—eighty-eight years after Brazil had become the last country in the Americas to abolish chattel slavery. Santos, popularly called “Frei David,” was attending a Catholic seminary in a small city outside of São Paulo.

Barankitse is a Burundian who now lives in Rwanda. For more than 25 years, she has led Maison Shalom, or House of Peace, the holistic humanitarian organization she established to generate hope in the Great Lakes region of Africa.

The work of holistically resilient spiritual exemplars shows that it is possible to give equal and simultaneous attention to individuals, communities and the wider systems in which they are embedded, striving for a model of resilience that is not simply persisting but also flourishing.