The rise of popular movements around the world is proof that today's profit-driven economic system fails to place human dignity at its center, said Cardinal Peter Turkson, prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human ...
In an essay for Our Sunday Visitor, Bishop Shelton Fabre, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Ad Hoc Committee Against Racism, writes that “the injustices people of color have been experiencing are a ...
You’ve probably had the same frustrating conversation. It frequently comes in the form of a question regarding discussions on abortion. Those of us who try to raise awareness and address the issue are asked why ...
WASHINGTON (CNS) — Archbishop Jose H. Gomez of Los Angeles told a crowd of priests, women religious and students the story of a Spanish missionary named Montesinos. Witnessing the cruelty of colonialists to Indians, Montesinos ...
In recent years, the longstanding March for Life has received considerably less media coverage than it did back in the 1980s and ’90s. Until 36 hours after this year’s March for Life ended, it appeared ...
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Vatican has created a set of pastoral guidelines to inspire and improve the church’s work in addressing the crime of human trafficking and the care of its victims worldwide. The ...
One of my friends recently posted an article on Facebook from the Catholic website Aleteia singling out National Geographic for creating and sharing an initiative called “Look at us a little differently” on its Instagram ...
He was barely 3 years old. Wearing black shoes and a deep-blue striped shirt, he pressed his face between the 30-foot-high, solid-iron bar fence that separates the United States from Mexico. Not even his tiny ...
Vincent Lambert, a severely injured quadriplegic as a result of a car accident 10 years ago, is in a French hospital. Although he is not terminally ill or in a coma, a doctor decided in ...
Having a small child face an illness that doctors declare to be untreatable and ultimately fatal is nightmare enough for any parent. But the recent high-profile case of Alfie Evans is a reminder of the ...