Catholic social teaching is proverbially considered the church's "best kept secret." Why is that? And what can be done about it? These are among the questions that will be addressed in the next couple ...

The Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines publicly committed in 2022 to withdraw its finances no later than 2025 from banks with no clear policies for fossil fuel divestment. But Catholic ...

With the May 8 election of Pope Leo XIV, many commentators noted that the last Leonine pontificate gave us Catholic social teaching, that branch of moral theology that rose out of the experience of ...

U.S. President Donald Trump pauses as he announces his decision that the United States will withdraw from the landmark Paris Climate Agreement, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington June ...

American homes are getting bigger and bigger, but at the same time we are becoming more isolated from our neighbors. (iStock/Alex Potemkin) Over the past half-century, the American dream has come true ...

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has laid off staff members from a department specializing in social justice initiatives that has been at the center of controversy over the years.

Vice President-elect J.D. Vance is not a typical Republican in the corporate-friendly international interventionist mold that has dominated the party for the last several decades. Since he ventured ...

JD Vance speaks in the Indian Treaty Room of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus in Washington D.C. on Jan. 25, 2025. (Credit: Rob Lamkey, Jr./AP.) Listen Say what you ...