As 2024 concluded, the demolition of Gaza and its people continued unabated. After 15 months of violence, their suffering, normalized, faded into the...
Peace & Justice
Reported stories and first-person essays about Catholic social teaching and how Catholics are living out the call to work for justice.
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...
Last April, my husband and I visited a prison in Globe, Arizona—a powerful experience that brought to life everything I had been working toward and learning...
Less than 24 hours after her cesarean section on April 30th at a government-run teaching hospital in Oron, a coastal community of Akwa Ibom in Nigeria, 24-year...
I am Catholic and a historian of Catholics—and over the past few years, I’ve become increasingly convinced that U.S. Catholics need a new account of ourselves...
As we head into 2025—a year that Pope Francis has declared a Jubilee year for the church—the United States faces a second Trump presidency, leaving many...
At Just Roots Chicago, a dedicated staff and team of 1,500 volunteers have transformed three and a half acres into a community farm on the site of a demolished...
On December 29, 2024, at age 100, Jimmy Carter died, leaving behind a powerful legacy that can be summarized by the Carter Foundation’s motto: “Waging Peace . ...
