The war in Ukraine and international efforts to initiate a peace process have put global diplomacy in the spotlight. My impression is that neither the media nor its audience fully comprehends the ...

A recent speaker at a South Bend, Indiana, parish said he was not going to tell parishioners how to vote, nor would he present a Catholic report card on the two presidential candidates. Instead, ...

Mark Carney’s recent Davos address can be read as a moment when geopolitical realism converges with the moral logic long articulated in Catholic social teaching. His claim that the post–Cold War ...

Pope Leo XIV has been in the news globally in recent times because of his message and crusade for peace in the Middle East. There are those who are now accusing him of being an activist pope. Actually ...

When white smoke rose above the Sistine Chapel on May 8 2025, the surprise was immediate. The Catholic Church’s leadership had elected its first pope born in the United States, a former Augustinian ...

Just over a month after laying off several staff members of a controversial department specializing in social justice initiatives, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has announced a new ...

John Carr, director of the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life at Georgetown University and an abuse survivor, speaks during a Feb. 1, 2019, panel discussion at the Leadership ...

John Carr, co-director of the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life at Georgetown University and an abuse survivor, speaks during a Feb. 1, 2019, panel discussion at the Leadership ...

On a mild February morning in McAllen, the sprawling interior of Catholic Charities’ Humanitarian Respite Center was quiet. Shampoo and hygiene products lined shelves on either side of a statue of the ...