Experts discuss just war theory and cyber attacks
Measuring how to respond to a cyber attack that disrupts national security, alters elections or causes loss of life is more complicated than deciding to use force against military attacks.
Justice
Sidewalk lecherousness up high in gilded offices
Column: Women are forced to go through life with catcalling strategies, whether it's dealing with street lowlifes' vulgarities or with powerful men in corporate sanctuaries like Fox News.
Unpopular prophetic graduation message: Universities must be vehicles for transformative change
Commentary: Jesuit Fr. Ignacios Ellacuría's 1982 commencement address at Santa Clara was prophetic, the sort of message we need today.
Reviving the nuclear arms consciousness
Book Review: Almighty begins with the Manhattan Project in 1939 and traces the use and maintenance of these weapons through the 70th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan.
President Trump, before you meet Pope Francis, read this letter
NCR Today: Mr. President, when you meet Pope Francis, images of you and him will fill the front and home pages of news outlets around the globe.
Religious leaders fast to protest steep budget cuts for the poor
Updated: About a dozen religious leaders from major denominations and groups are fasting in response to the release of the Trump Administration's FY2018 budget proposal.
Cardinal Tobin calls for immigration reform
Cardinal Joseph Tobin of Newark rallied in support of a Mexican immigrant threatened with deportation because "God has shared his solidarity with every human situation."
Court inaction stalls extradition of former colonel
A U.S. magistrate ordered Col. Inocente Montano extradited to Spain to be tried for 1989 massacre of Jesuit priests, but follow-through looks unlikely after over a year of delays.
Was Jesus a community organizer?
Simply Spirit: How can Christians and other people of integrity speak for the common good in the wake of an apparent victory of what theologians, feminists and social historians have named "the domination system?"
Bail out program lets mothers go home
Over the weekend, more than a dozen social justice-based organizations gave about 30 mothers in jail their freedom for Mother's Day.
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May 19-June 1, 2017
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