Catholic Social Teaching

Asking what the term Catholic economics might mean strikes some people — too many, actually — as like asking...

The upcoming "Economy of Francesco" event (previously described here) in Assisi March 26 – 28 will be...

[This essay by Audrey Davis originally appeared in Radically Catholic in the Age of Francis....

It's the Catholic vision of the Shire: many small landholder families, owning the tools of...

[ Another post on the general theme of becoming a “Street Catholic,” in which I offer...

While I may be in a distinct minority among American Catholics, my spirits are rising....

[This is a guest post from Matthew Cooper, who blogs at the Heavy Anglo-Orthodox.] Readers...

From the grateful welcome given to the Three Magi (i.e., pagan wise men) at Bethlehem...

In 2008, Fr. Emmanuel Katongole, a Ugandan priest born in 1960 of Rwandan parents (one...

I’m fascinated by the story of the once-secret “Pact of the Catacombs” and its role...

Here’s how my Solidarity Hall colleague, Mark Gordon, launched this column, named for Dorothy Day,...

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...