By the time you read these words, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)—created in 1961 by President John F. Kennedy during an era of global...
Peace & Justice
Reported stories and first-person essays about Catholic social teaching and how Catholics are living out the call to work for justice.
“I fully expect the church to be persecuted,” says Bishop of El Paso Mark J. Seitz. Seitz has just spoken out strongly against the anti-immigrant policies of U...
We live in an era when “facts” are disassembled, reconfigured—or worse, fabricated out of thin air—before being sown like toxic seeds into public discourse. So...
One morning last October, a young mom and her toddler moved in to St. Ann’s Center with just one small suitcase between them. No boxes. No U-Haul. No moving...
Gloria Browne-Marshall is an author, civil rights lawyer, and professor of constitutional law and African studies at John Jay College. Photo by Ernie Marshall...
As 2024 concluded, the demolition of Gaza and its people continued unabated. After 15 months of violence, their suffering, normalized, faded into the...
In an image painted by Father William Hart McNichols, Our Lady of Sorrows reaches out her arms to Alana Chen, a young LGBTQ+ woman who died by suicide in 2019...
Catholics are far from immune to xenophobia. Many white Catholics seemed unbothered by the racist attacks on Catholic Haitians of Springfield, Ohio, following...
During the final weeks of Kamala Harris’ unsuccessful run for the presidency, an attendee at a campaign event shared the struggle of balancing costly child...
