On September 24, Pope Francis will address a Joint Session of Congress; he is the first pope to receive this honor. He will stand at the dais with Speaker...
Peace & Justice
Reported stories and first-person essays about Catholic social teaching and how Catholics are living out the call to work for justice.
Michael Brown died on August 9, 2015, an unarmed African American man, barely 18 years old, killed by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. His tragic death...
If you’re middle class, then you probably know that you’re part of a dwindling slice of the American pie. Are you feeling like it’s harder and harder to make...
In 1998 the then-newly-elected Iranian president, Mohammed Khatami, overcame the opposition of hard-line ayatollahs and sought rapprochement with the West...
How disturbing it is to strain to hear the videoed conversation: Between sips of wine and tinkling salad forks, the discussion focuses on how best to crush...
Last week, Pope Francis issued his most urgent and sweeping indictment of the structural immorality of the global economy to date. It was an astounding...
What do you picture when you hear the term “drug addict”? Most likely the first image you think of isn’t someone in your community, your...
For the American Catholic Church, the dust is a long way from being settled regarding the Supreme Court’s recent decision for same-sex marriage. How...
On Thursday night, November 20, 2014, President Barack Obama announced his executive action limiting deportations of undocumented immigrants to the most...
When the union’s inspiration through the workers’ blood shall run There can be no power greater anywhere beneath the sun Yet what force on earth is weaker than...
