Catholic teaching holds that global interdependence, left morally unstructured, intensifies injustice; cooperation among middle powers appears as a pragmatic analogue to institutional justice.

(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 ...

In a message to the 2026 European Conference organized by the Centesimus Annus Pro Pontifice Foundation in Luxembourg, Pope ...

With the May 8 election of Pope Leo XIV, many commentators noted that the last Leonine pontificate gave us Catholic social teaching, that branch of moral theology that rose out of the experience of ...

During the 1980s, John Carr served as the Secretary of Social Concerns for the Archdiocese of Washington, working with the ...

‘The Church’s social doctrine is called to provide insights that facilitate dialogue between science and conscience, and thus make an essential contribution to better understanding, hope and peace.’ ...

Pope Leo XIV shared Sunday pranzo with a group of poor people from the Diocese of Albano. The luncheon was held in the gardens of the Castel Gandolfo. The people invited receive assistance from ...

For the Catholic sisters whose ministries have taken them to the U.N.'s headquarters in New York City, it is also a "Gospel space" — a place where advocating for justice has been welcomed, and where ...

WASHINGTON (RNS) — Cardinals and coworkers praised Carr at his retirement after more than 50 years of work for the Catholic ...

The founder of a Georgetown University Catholic initiative was commemorated for his retirement at a Georgetown event Jan. 21. Georgetown’s Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public ...

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