Donald Trump has chosen Ohio senator J.D. Vance to be his running mate in the 2024 election. Like Trump, Vance is a self-proclaimed populist who says he will...
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 2022, Deborah Daniel was working as a salesgirl in a bookshop when her friend tricked her into prostitution in Onitsha, a city located on the eastern bank...
Minimum-wage laws are intended to put an absolute bottom on the depths to which wages might otherwise sink left to their own—that is, corporate—devices. But...
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...
White wooden crosses reflected upside down in standing pools of water were planted on the southern bank of the Rio Grande. Bishops from El Paso, Texas; Las...
As the U.S. bishops gather in Louisville this month, on their agenda will be a discussion of the future of the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD)...
On May 2, Notre Dame students gathered on a lawn on the university’s campus to call for a ceasefire in Gaza. Palestinian student Daniel Bannoura publicly...
I never thought gun violence would directly impact my life. And I never thought I would lose my child to gun violence here in Chicago. I was born in 1972 to a...
Mike Martin is the founder and executive director of RAWtools. “They shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall...
Sounding Board is one person’s take on a many-sided subject and does not necessarily reflect the opinions of U.S. Catholic, its editors, or the Claretians...
