Poverty

Deep slashes to USAID funding have now made the annual Rice Bowl collection more essential than ever for Catholic Relief Services.

“Human flourishing requires meeting basic needs such as food, water, shelter, together with quality healthcare and education and also freedom.”

“Principles of human dignity and compassion are discarded in favor of a calculus that values the acquisition of wealth, military power” and stoking divisions.

Trump will seek to ban corporations from buying single-family homes amid a housing shortage the U.S. bishops say is affecting “a basic human right.”

Where violence, poverty and division seem to suffocate hope, the birth of the Son of God continues to shine forth as the most radical sign of God’s closeness.

A theme of “transformed” reminded participants that after receiving the Eucharist, they are tasked to take the faith out into the world to serve others.

The Catholic Church’s charitable activity makes the Christian faith credible, Pope Leo XIV said, thanking members of Caritas Internationalis for living out what they believe.

More than a quarter of the global population still lacks access to seven basic needs identified as fundamental by the late Pope Francis.

On Oct. 25, 150 leaders from across Appalachia gathered at the Diocese of Pittsburgh Pastoral Center for a daylong “faith and labor” dialogue designed to grapple with a range of …

In his speech, Pope Leo decried the fact that while humanity has made huge advances in technology, medicine, agriculture and transportation, 673 million people go to bed hungry each night, …