Pope Leo XIV recently declared in his encyclical Magnifica Humanitas (On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence) that “‘just war’...
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 vast carceral network is being hastily constructed in the United States to warehouse people too often rounded up after inadequate attention to due process or...
When we consider the situation of migrant children in the United States, the reality is troubling. More than 6,200 children have been detained by U.S...
The common life of culture can only exist within what Pope Leo XIV in Magnifica Humanitas (On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial...
When tabulating the butcher’s bill of armed conflict, we have grown used to expressions like collateral damage, a euphemism for the deaths and injuries of...
During the Second World War, Joseph Stalin is said to have asked, “How many divisions has the pope?” The answer, of course, is none; the pope has neither a...
For our Sounding Board column, U.S. Catholic asks authors to argue one side of a many-sided issue of importance to Catholics around the country. We also invite...
The September 11 terrorist attacks that left nearly 3,000 people dead left an indelible mark on all of us who remember it. Many still mourn the tragic loss of...
I grew up liking soccer, but at some point, I disconnected from it. Even a week before the World Cup began, I was not planning to watch. But then, while...






