Ordained as a Baptist minister, the Civil Rights leader was well-versed in the church fathers, quoting St. Augustine in his ...

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 ...

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, ...

Pope Francis leaves a legacy of advocating for social justice issues. But some Catholic communities wish he had been able to do more. Thousands of people from around the world are filing into St.

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 ...

John Singarayar explores the promise and peril of AI through the lens of Catholic Social Teaching. Pope Leo XIV and the ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld a ruling by the Oklahoma Supreme Court denying state funds to a Catholic charter school in that state. Because it was a tie vote (4-4, with Justice Amy Coney Barrett ...

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, ...

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 ...