Ken Craycraft, Author at Catholic Herald

Ken Craycraft

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September 15, 2020

Citizenship is serious business, and requires us to do hard thinking together. In anticipation of the 2020 presidential election, conscientious Catholics all along the political and partisan spectrum are wrestling with the difficult question of situating abortion, on the one hand, in relation to every other moral issue on the other. This is as it

In Memoriam: Fr. Paul Mankowski SJ

September 04, 2020

Kenneth Craycraft remembers his friend, the Rev. Paul V. Mankowski, S.J. (November 15, 1953-September 3, 2020) On Thursday, September 3, 2020, Fr. Paul V. Mankowski, S.J. passed suddenly from this life. Father Mankowski had a reputation as a controversialist, and he often butted heads with his confreres and superiors in the Society of Jesus. But

“The Saint of Lost Causes”

August 29, 2020

Remembering an artist who struggled with—and against—loneliness, abandonment, estrangement, addiction. On the 20th of August 2020, American singer-songwriter Justin Townes Earle died in Nashville, Tennessee. He was 38 years old, and the likely cause of his death was a drug overdose. While Earle achieved only modest commercial success in the Americana, folk, or alt-country musical

Now Is the Time for Your Tears

August 11, 2020

The long season of reckoning with racism is not nearly passed. The Summer of 2020 has been, among other things, a season of reckoning for latent or residual systemic racism as well as for the confrontation of individual racist attitudes and practices. Both in the U.S. and Europe, we have seen nearly universal agreement both

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