“He generously mentored many priests and bishops and championed the apostolate of the laity and their vital role in the public square.”
Catholic Social Teaching
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Pope Leo XIV urged the wealthy citizens of Monaco to remember the poor and protect every human life, saying the Last Judgment “places the poor at its center.”
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Jesuit Father John Courtney Murray played a key role in drafting Vatican II’s landmark Declaration on Religious Freedom, “Dignitatis Humanae,” in 1965.
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(OSV News) — The Vatican’s top diplomat to the United Nations condemned modern and historical slavery — while countering what he called a “partial narrative” in a newly adopted U.N. resolution …
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Supreme Court weighs whether policy of turning away asylum-seekers at border can be reinstated
by Kate Scanlonby Kate Scanlon“The practical effect of these policies is the withdrawal of asylum protection altogether, which is a violation of both U.S. and international law.”
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Advocates from across the U.S. gathered in Arizona to discuss pastoral strategies for understanding and applying Catholic teaching to mass deportations.
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Some small farmers in the country’s impoverished Black Belt are poised to see significant returns thanks to a fledgling Catholic farming aid and grant program.
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People should have “clean hands, open minds and loving hearts” before protesting and act for the right reasons and not harm the common good.
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“Our conversations have focused on how to better guide the People of God with wisdom and courage in a time marked by profound changes and challenges.”
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(OSV News) — Katie Holler, a Catholic mother of two, had for months been following news of the Trump administration’s increasingly hardline immigration policies, but she still remembers when she …
