U.S. Bishops Urge Action On Carbon Pollution To Stem Climate Change

Bishops celebrate Mass, lobby on Capitol Hill

Catholic teaching views the vocation of politics as a vital element in building up the kingdom of God on earth. Democracy is not merely a set of empty procedures, but instead a way to promote the dignity of the human person, respect for human rights and commitment to the common good. For this reason

Special interests with unlimited political money are more effective at stopping things than advancing them.

Documents detailing a 2014 court decision ordering the deportation of a now-80-year-old former defense minister from El Salvador directly connect his leadership to human rights abuses and a reign of terror against the country's civilians including a Salvadoran archbishop and women religious duri

In spirit and law the U.S. must recognize the economic and cultural value of immigrants.

While comprehensive immigration reform remains stalled in Congress, members of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops joined residents, migrants and advocates from both sides of the U.S./Mexico border in Nogales, Ariz., on April 1. There they celebrated Mass together, remembering thousands of migra

The latest (Un)Conventional Wisdom from our politics blogger Robert D. Sullivan

Below is a letter written by Catholic Cardinal Peter Turkson who is the President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace in Vatican City Thanks to Eli S McCarthy of Georgetown University for sending it to America The U S Bishops Conference has been meeting discussing and advocating for

As the nation continues its apparently endless debate on comprehensive immigration reform members of the U S Conference of Catholic Bishops joined together this morning with residents migrants and advocates at the border in Nogales Arizona There they celebrated Mass together to remember the tho