Pope Francis was famously not a fan of judging other people, at least not on the individual level. Over the 12-plus years of his pontificate, however, there...
Peace & Justice
Reported stories and first-person essays about Catholic social teaching and how Catholics are living out the call to work for justice.
“All the Christian faithful and people of good will are called upon to consider the legitimacy of norms and public policies in the light of the dignity of the...
Imagine this: Your beloved family member says goodbye to go to work. On his way, he is stopped by people who look like civilians but have their faces covered...
Former presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama were hardly slouches when it came to deporting people who had entered the United States without documentation...
Despite the level of unease in El Paso, Texas, as U.S. Army tanks remain stationed on the Borderland hillsides, public land has been turned into militarized...
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?”...
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...
