Justice in Society

“Justice is, first and foremost, a virtue, that is, a firm and stable attitude that orders our conduct according to reason and faith,” the pope said.

“To ‘hunger and thirst’ for justice means being aware that it demands personal effort to interpret the law in the most humane way possible,” the pope said.

(OSV News) — Deep in the heart of the Amazon rainforest, a new species of screech owl, dubbed the Xingu screech owl, was discovered by scientists in 2021. However, what …

(OSV News) — A leading African cardinal has described the Catholic Church in Africa as “a champion of human development,” saying that it’s precisely the church that makes up for …

(OSV News) — It was June 1963, and President John F. Kennedy had just months to live before an assassin’s bullet would shatter his skull in the streets of Dallas …

MEXICO CITY (OSV News) — A Salvadoran prelate has urged the country to “avoid the imprisonment of innocent people,” marking rare public comments from clergy on a crackdown against criminal …

WASHINGTON (OSV News) — Los obispos de Estados Unidos elogiaron el 10 de julio el reciente anuncio del Departamento de Seguridad Nacional de EE.UU. de que ampliaría los procesos de …

This week there has been much occasion to pray along with the news. OSV News has covered the murder of Ugandan students, anti-Christian sentiment in the Holy Land, violence and …

LVIV, Ukraine (OSV News) — Leading forensic experts at the British University of Exeter are collecting evidence and testimonies of Russian war crimes in Ukraine. In the course of their …

(OSV News) — In 1891, the same year Pope Leo XIII responded to revolutionary economic and industrial upheaval with the encyclical “Rerum Novarum,” the first car powered by electricity made …