John Carr's vocation was as a layman working to help the church share, apply and act on the principles of Catholic social teaching. Now retired, he looks back on his 50 years of service and shares ...

Vice President-elect J.D. Vance is not a typical Republican in the corporate-friendly international interventionist mold that has dominated the party for the last several decades. Since he ventured ...

(RNS) — Labor Day is approaching, and just a few days later I will begin teaching my fall classes. Like every fall semester, the largest class I’ll teach will be on Catholic social teaching. This ...

JD Vance speaks in the Indian Treaty Room of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus in Washington D.C. on Jan. 25, 2025. (Credit: Rob Lamkey, Jr./AP.) Listen Say what you ...

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 ...

The Observer-Reporter published the AP version of Donald Trump’s appearance at the Al Smith dinner. The fundraiser for Catholic Charities honors Al Smith, who, in 1928, became the first Catholic to ...

In Portland, Oregon, people wearing inflatable frog costumes – The Portland Frog Brigade – danced outside immigration offices ...

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, ...

Depressingly, 40 years since Cardinal Bernardin first proposed the consistent ethic of life, the ethic remains mired in the same senseless, polarized partisanship that Bernardin proposed the ethic to ...