For our Sounding Board column, U.S. Catholic asks authors to argue one side of a many-sided issue of importance to Catholics...
Economic justice
Explore U.S. Catholic articles on economic justice—insights, stories, and reflections on poverty, inequality, and Catholic social teaching.
In a small room in Field Projects, a Manhattan art gallery, three punch-needle tapestries hang from banner poles alongside clippings from old newspapers with...
The word sabotage—from the French saboter, “to bungle, wreck, or willfully disrupt”—originally referred to a 19th-century labor tactic. French textile workers...
Faith-based groups—including Catholics—have successfully asked a sporting goods store to stop selling assault rifles, tech companies to ban the transmission of...
In many parishes across the United States, foreign aid remains an abstract concept—a line item in the budget, a title in the news tickers, a political debate...
Your favorite pair of jeans—especially if they’re Calvin Klein, Levi’s, or Wranglers—may have been made in Lesotho. A small country surrounded by South Africa...
Catholic popes have issued 240 encyclicals since 1854. The most prolific modern papal authors were those who had reigns of at least 25 years: John Paul II...
In Their Own Words is a new web column from U.S. Catholic. In these essays, academics and other experts provide short, evidence-based explanations of prominent...
It wasn’t supposed to be this way, Vice President JD Vance complained to tech and corporate leaders gathered at the American Dynamism Summit in Washington last...
Several times throughout the day, the bells from the Camaldolese monastery on the hill rang out across the fields where I worked. The sound was almost...
