Every month a group gathers at Holy Trinity Church to hold a vigil for those who have died homeless in Toronto.
Catholic Social Teaching
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Deportation to deadly countries is an evil we can avoid
Can a Catholic carry out his or her job duties in good conscience if they include the deportation of people facing imminent death in their home countries?
Posted inFeatures, Politics & Society
Why Democrats and Republicans (still) cannot agree on health care reform
The Affordable Care Act has changed our expectations for health care. It shifted the way we live, which may be shifting what we believe.
Posted inFeatures, Politics & Society
When the sick and marginalized are left behind, it’s Catholic health care providers who bring hope.
Those serving the homeless and other marginalized communities are living the pope’s vision of the church as a spiritual field hospital.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
White House signing ceremonies showcase two styles of U.S. Catholicism
An executive order on religious liberty gave the impression of a church wanting to be left alone, but there is another role for Catholics.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Nebraska highlights the Catholic Church’s struggle with the death penalty
The fight against the death penalty lays bare the strengths and weaknesses of the Catholic approach to pro-life issues.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
US bishops urge Arkansas officials to abandon rush of executions in April
Remarkably, the death sentences are being pushed through this month in an effort to beat the May expiration date for the state’s supply of midazolam, a controversial sedative that is one of three drugs used in lethal injections.
Posted inFaith, News
Pope Francis visits high-security prison on Holy Thursday
It is the third Holy Thursday that Francis has spent at a detention center, part of his longstanding emphasis on ministering to prisoners.
Posted inFaith, News
Labor board rules in favor of workers at Catholic universities
Only theology professors were found ineligible to join the union.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
The ‘Pope Francis Laundry’ for Rome’s homeless opens at Vatican
The “Lavanderia di Papa Francesco” (“Pope Francis Laundry”) is a free service “offered to the poorest people.”