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Statue of an enslaved person in front of Georgetown buildings.
Politics & SocietyNews
Mark Pattison - Catholic News Service
Since 2016, Rachel L. Swarns has been researching Georgetown University’s involvement in the slave trade, including the 1838 sale of 272 enslaved people to help pay off debts the Jesuit priests incurred in running the university.
A red book containing sheet music
FaithFaith in Focus
Mark Pattison - Catholic News Service
Results of a poll of 9,000 Christian churches last December were released this Dec. 1. What Christmas carols made the Top 10?
A photo of an empty church with rows of empty pews.
FaithNews
Mark Pattison - Catholic News Service
If trends of the past 30 years continue for the next 50, Christianity will lose its majority status in the United States by 2070, according to a new demographic study by the Pew Research Center.
A group marches holding signs calling for new labor contracts.
Politics & SocietyNews
Mark Pattison - Catholic News Service
This year’s annual Labor Day statement from the U.S. bishops touts two bills awaiting action in Congress as being helpful to children, women and families: the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act and an expansion of the federal child tax credit.
FaithNews
Mark Pattison - Catholic News Service
Present and past colleagues of Jesuit Father Drew Christiansen paid tribute to the Middle East and foreign policy scholar and former editor of ‘America’ who died April 6.
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Mark Pattison - Catholic News Service
Thomas J. Quigley, who worked for 45 years in service to the U.S. bishops, mostly in the realm of foreign policy, died Dec. 11 at age 91.
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Mark Pattison - Catholic News Service
The racial divide in American society and within the Catholic Church is one that needs to be bridged so that healing and progress can take place, said retired Bishop Edward K. Braxton of Belleville, Illinois.
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Mark Pattison - Catholic News Service
It was 100 years ago—on Sept. 12, 1921—when the Maryknoll Sisters assigned its first group of sisters to China, the order’s first mission.
In this Sept. 9, 2013 file photo, Richard Trumka, American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations president, addresses members during the quadrennial AFL-CIO convention at Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles.  (AP Photo/Nick Ut)
Politics & SocietyNews
Mark Pattison - Catholic News Service
‘I believe the Catholic Church—my church—ought to be a leader in human rights, which include workers' rights,’ Trumka told CNS in 2010.
FaithNews
Mark Pattison - Catholic News Service
As the election, the pandemic and racism made headlines across the U.S. last year, priests’ homilies did not mention these events nearly as much as did sermons by Protestant preachers.