Catholic Social Teaching

There is no immigration crisis on the southern border. That's a lie. There is, however,...

The forcible separation of children from their parents has a long history in the United...

We ... view our work first as a religious obligation, but also as a practical...

We are mostly comfortable middle class people exercising a sort of Catholic noblesse oblige, often with...

We all know the Mass-hopper: that restless type who constantly whines that he can’t take...

My question is this: Why the hell is a Catholic priest serving as chaplain to...

Fifty years ago today, on the morning after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.,...

Babylon is indeed falling. But then, Babylon is always falling, which is to say that...

Yesterday morning I picked up my friend, Issa Umi, at the suburban train stop. He...

How to understand Pope Francis? Despite the apparent dyspepsia his arrival has caused among some of...

On the surface, it would seem so; in Scripture, there are nearly 3,000 verses concerned...

Raymond Sickinger, a professor of history at Providence College, has written an impressive new biography...

It’s sadly become somewhat de rigueur, particularly but not exclusively on the American political right,...

How wonderful it would be if solidarity, this beautiful and, at times, inconvenient word, were...

"How can I make you realize the misery of the poor? How can I make...

Myself I've never met a saint of the Church and I've only met one person...

Dispossessed of jobs and their dignity for a generation now or more, the Trump voters...

The truth is, I'm going to be just fine during the Trump Administration. I 'm holding...

Eighty-one days of prayer for justice, peace, and racial reconciliation in the United States. We...

Perhaps the greatest threat Trump presents to religious liberty is his abiding promise to form...

In 1976, the evangelical church of my youth celebrated the bicentennial of American independence. Since my dad...

"The global economy is not working for the majority of people in our country and...

Saints, G.K. Chesterton once pointed out, are an antidote to whatever the age neglects. Such...

What I’m about write is not an exercise in partisan advocacy. I belong to neither...

I write today for the purpose of recommending “Called to Community: The Life Jesus Wants...

This essay is adapted from the original which appeared at Vox Nova on August 23,...

I've not been to Las Vegas since my high school Latin group stopped there briefly...

“Charity is the Samaritan who pours oil on the wounds of the traveler who has...

I have a friend named Trish who frequently corners me after Mass to ask questions...

“Look here,” G.B. Shaw once gently chaffed his friend and debating partner G.K. Chesterton, “Is...