In the third installment of “An Unfailing Treasure,” writer David Werning’s series on the most important Church documents of the past 150 years, he explores the context and call of Pope Leo XIII’s 1891 encyclical ...
For all the years Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso, Texas, has spent ministering at the Mexican border with people on the move to the United States, it was a young girl, he said, ...
"Time is never meant to be useless," said Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory of Washington in his homily at the opening Mass this year's Catholic Social Ministry Gathering, and he advised the gathering's 800-plus registrants to ...
Archbishop Gregory J. Hartmayer said the verdict convicting three white men for the 2020 murder of 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery "does not bring him back. It does not bridge the racial divide in our community. It ...
The Church’s social teaching, guided by the Gospel and centuries of Christian thought and refined by modern popes and Church scholars, plays a crucial role in the way parishes operate and serve their wider communities. ...
With "social injustice, division and conflict" threatening the common good, people need to rediscover and recommit to the vision of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to work nonviolently for harmony and equality for all, ...
Guaranteeing justice for all men and women is not possible while a few people control most of the world's wealth and everyone else's right to a dignified life is disregarded, Pope Francis said. In a Nov. ...
A delegation representing the National Basketball Players Association, a union representing professional athletes from the NBA, met with Pope Francis and spoke with him about their work in promoting social justice. The players association said the ...
Years before a white Minneapolis police officer kneeled on George Floyd’s neck for nearly nine minutes, “Black Lives Matter” was already a polarizing statement in a country with deep racial fault lines. But as the ...
In an essay for Our Sunday Visitor, Pauline Sister Theresa Aletheia Noble writes that she “learned more about racism in my time as a punk rock atheist than I ever did as a Catholic.” She ...
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In honor of the passing of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, writer David Werning gives a rundown of the major writings of his pontificate, including four apostolic exhortations and three encyclicals …
The key papal writings of Pope Benedict XVI
In honor of the passing of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, writer David Werning gives a rundown of the major writings of his pontificate
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Editor Father Patrick Briscoe @PatrickMaryOP reflects on the rise in vandalism against Catholic churches and why it is just to seek restitution …
Attacks against our churches are bigotry, pure and simple
In his latest column, Father Briscoe reflects on the rise in vandalism against Catholic churches and why it is just to seek restitution.
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