Pope Francis said, “My friends, we cannot tolerate or turn a blind eye to racism and exclusion in any form and yet claim to defend the sacredness of every...
Peace & Justice
Reported stories and first-person essays about Catholic social teaching and how Catholics are living out the call to work for justice.
A Vatican commission has again said “no” to women deacons, while leaving the door cracked. Opening it wider can’t be a task for women alone. Following the...
On January 7, 2026 an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer murdered Renee Good, a mother of young children and an award-winning poet. Also in...
How could God have designed the creation of human life? Any way he wanted, yet he chose pregnancy. And through that design, God has made it impossible for us...
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...
Since his return to office a year ago, President Donald Trump has devoted a lot of energy to reversing initiatives favored by his predecessor, Joe Biden...
In Augustine’s time, after a period of persecution against the church, a sect of Catholics known as Donatists held a grudge against the Catholics who had...
This past October, outside Chicago’s Broadview Detention Center, federal agents struck Presbyterian pastor David Black seven times in the head and upper body...
When we think of the saints, we may picture peaceful souls lost in prayer, far from political turmoil. In fact, however, many of the holiest people in...
