When Jesus and his followers encountered a man blind from birth, the disciples asked, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”...
Peace & Justice
Reported stories and first-person essays about Catholic social teaching and how Catholics are living out the call to work for justice.
For many Black Catholic communities in the United States, Pope Francis’ life and legacy, as someone who lived out an ethic of “all are welcome,” is “exactly...
A significant legacy of Pope Francis will be how he kept Palestinians close to his heart. The pontiff consistently and repeatedly called for a Gaza ceasefire...
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...
“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...
