SÃO PAULO – Brazilian Catholics concluded a week of pro-life activities this week, many of them opposing what organizers, legislators, and activists see as efforts to short-circuit the political process in order to expand access… Brazil: Life week mobilizes Catholics, other Christians
Courtesy photoA few of the Gallagher children help with produce in the kitchen. ‘Let’s face it, being an authentic Catholic is hard work. … If your kid is going to practice his faith as an… Father of 16 Calls on Parents to Raise ‘Blue-Collar Kids in a White-Collar World’
Daniel IbanezPope Leo XIV during the weekly General Audience on Oct. 8, 2025 in St. Peter’s Square. COMMENTARY: The challenge of using such a framework is that many audiences take Brother Sun and Mother Earth and leave… ‘Dilexi Te’: The Franciscan Framework of Pope Leo’s First Document
Pope Leo XIV released the first major document of his young pontificate on Thursday, in which he called upon all the Christian faithful – especially Catholics – to “make their voices heard,” in decrying the… Leo XIV publishes first major document of pontificate
Bartolomé Esteban MurilloThe Return of the Prodigal Son (c. 1667-1670). These voices truly touched by tragedy show what the heart is capable of with the grace of God.
Zvonimir AtleticMother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity kneel before the Blessed Sacrament at the Mother House in Kolkata, India, where daily prayer sustains their service to the poorest of the poor. COMMENTARY: The Second Vatican Council… Why Vatican II Urged Catholics to Be the ‘Church of the Poor’
Daniel Ibanez Pope Leo XIV blesses pilgrims during his weekly General Audience at St. Peter’s Square on Oct. 8, 2025. Christ’s whole life is an example of poverty, Pope Leo writes, and the Church, if it wants… ‘Dilexi Te’: Pope Leo XIV, in His First Major Document, Says the Poor Evangelize Us
Over 100 Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) and humanitarian actors, including several Catholic entities, have warned that more than a quarter-million people may perish, many of them children, as a paramilitary force commanded by a leader… Starvation as weapon in war-torn Sudan
SÃO PAULO, Brazil – A national strike called by the the strongest Indigenous organization in Ecuador has been promoting marches and road blockades in several regions over the past two weeks, accompanied by several Church… Ecuador: Church groups accompany demonstrators amid tensions between president, Indigenous people
Adam Wasilewski The term is not neutrally descriptive; it is, rather, quite loaded, theologically and politically. COMMENTARY: The term is both the carrier of a theological program and an emblem of various political causes.