When it comes to advocating for the marginalized, women religious "have the history even before some of the member states ...

The man currently mourned by the world's 1.4 billion Catholics was a boy from a Buenos Aires barrio born to a working-class family of immigrants. An Argentinian and the first Latin American pontiff, ...

Pope Francis leaves a legacy of advocating for social justice issues. But some Catholic communities wish he had been able to do more. Thousands of people from around the world are filing into St.

After the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops announced last week that it would restructure its department of Justice, Peace & Human Development, the department’s partner organizations face ...

Last March, the Republican Study Committee proposed changing the provisions of the Social Security program by raising the full retirement age from 67 to 69. The committee, which represents 80 percent ...

DETROIT (AP) — Thomas Gumbleton, a Catholic bishop in Detroit who for decades was an international voice against war and racism and an advocate for labor and social justice, died Thursday. He was 94.

Since the Supreme Court curtailed race-conscious admissions last June, Catholic colleges and universities have been strategizing on how they can continue their longstanding commitment to diversity.

(RNS) — Less than two weeks after many U.S. bishops made a strong show of support for the conference’s domestic anti-poverty initiative, staff members from that initiative and others were laid off on ...

Archbishop Zeferino Zeca Martins has urged members of the Catholic Men Organization in Angola to be involved in the fight ...

Last March, the Republican Study Committee proposed changing the provisions of the Social Security program by raising the full retirement age from 67 to 69. The committee, which represents 80 percent ...