Leo XIV said, “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.”
Catholic Social Teaching
Posted inFaith, Short Take
Pope Leo XIV can bring Catholic social teaching into the A.I. age
In these early days of the A.I. revolution, a lesson from the first Industrial Revolution holds firm. Catholic social teaching instructs us to look beyond machinery to people.
Posted inExplainer, Faith
Who was Pope Leo XIII?
Cardinal Robert F. Prevost has selected the name Pope Leo XIV—so who was Pope Leo XIII?
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: Father Charles Strobel’s life of servant leadership
There is joy and heartbreak in Father Charles Strobel’s memoir, ‘The Kingdom of the Poor,’ but mostly joy.
Posted inFaith, News
CRS sends Congress a ‘Catholic, pro-life vision’ for foreign aid amid USAID shutdown
Amid funding uncertainty, CRS submitted testimony to congressional lawmakers about how Catholic teaching can help form a new path forward on U.S. aid.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Ignatian Solidarity Network sources college gear that is ethically ready to wear
Can you actually achieve a triple bottom line—people, planet and profit—in clothing manufacture? CEPA shows the way.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
Men and boys are lost. The Catholic Church can give them a better model of manliness.
The “manosphere” calls for more testosterone, more spectacle. But servant leadership, embodied in Catholic men’s groups past and present, encompass the fullness of human experience.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
The problem with JD Vance’s theology of ‘ordo amoris’—and its impact on policy
JD Vance tries to use Aquinas’s ‘order of love’ to support his political ideology, but is the ethical order he proposes actually consistent with the ethic of Aquinas or, more broadly, with the principles of Catholic social teaching?
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
R.I.P. John Coleman, S.J., distinguished sociologist (and parish priest)
One of the nation’s most distinguished sociologists for many years and an expert on the relationship between religion and public life, the Rev. John A. Coleman died on Jan. 17, 2025 in Los Gatos, Calif., at the age of 87.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Caring for migrants and refugees is not optional for Catholics.
Jesus calls us to care for those in need—regardless of national boundaries.