social justice | SAPIENTIA

Sr. Helen Prejean to Fordham Graduates: “I have nothing for you but fire.”

By David Gibson | June 6, 2024

The Catholic nun, author of “Dead Man Walking,” and activist against capital punishment: “I invite you to do civic discourse—not name-calling and demeaning and argument.”

Faith and Anti-Racism

By Fr. Louis J. Cameli | August 14, 2020

Faith and religious figures played a pivotal role in the civil rights era of the 1960s. Do American religious communities and institutions carry a responsibility in the contemporary struggle for racial justice? Might faith even provide a new path for all Americans?