Forty-one years ago, I joined the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Department, located in the Tampa Bay area of Florida. As a first-generation college student from a...
Peace & Justice
Reported stories and first-person essays about Catholic social teaching and how Catholics are living out the call to work for justice.
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...
On June 17, 2025, Holy Family Parish, a Catholic Church in Gaza, was struck by an Israeli shell that killed three people and injured several others. This...
Arriving to the United States as a teenage undocumented migrant—a refugee from his native El Salvador—Auxiliary Bishop Evelio Menjivar-Ayala of Washington, D.C...
At an Apache sacred site in Arizona, Chi’chil Bildagoteel—known in English as Oak Flat—Catholic sisters joined Apache elders and youth this year, on July 18...
“Peace be with you all.” With this simple greeting, Pope Leo XIV introduced himself to the world from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica. For Catholics, peace...
In Argentina’s Patagonia region, large shale fields called Vaca Muerta sprawl over open, dry flatlands. Under the area’s giant sky, locals have farmed fruit...
If Jesus were living in our modern world, would he have had the chance to go to college? Jesus wasn’t born into privilege. In Luke 2:24, we learn that Mary and...
And [Jesus] was transfigured before them, and his face shone like the sun, and his clothes became bright as light.” (Matthew 17:2) Three gospels—Matthew, Mark...
