The man currently mourned by the world's 1.4 billion Catholics was a boy from a Buenos Aires barrio born to a working-class family of immigrants. An Argentinian and the first Latin American pontiff, ...

The new pope has taken a name that recalls Pope Leo XIII, who wrote the outline for modern Catholic social justice teaching. Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on May 8, 2025. Pope Leo XIII, the leader of ...

Catholic teaching holds that global interdependence, left morally unstructured, intensifies injustice; cooperation among middle powers appears as a pragmatic analogue to institutional justice.

During the 1980s, John Carr served as the Secretary of Social Concerns for the Archdiocese of Washington, working with the archbishop then, Cardinal James Hickey, as the archdiocese greatly expanded ...

The Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life will launch tonight in Gaston Hall with an event examining Pope Francis’ impact on American public life during his first six months as the ...

Few issues in American public life are as divisive and emotionally charged among Catholics as immigration. The topic stirs deep and often conflicting convictions: compassion for migrants and refugees, ...

Katie Holler has watched with horror as migrants in the United States have been violently detained, some separated from their families and children. The case of a Cuban mother deported without her ...

As the Senate continued its consideration of a sweeping package for President Donald Trump's agenda, Catholic women religious held a demonstration on Capitol grounds June 24, urging lawmakers not to ...