Catholic Social Teaching

Vice President JD Vance met with two top Vatican officials Saturday, discussing issues like Gaza, Ukraine and deportation as he begins an official visit to Italy and India.

Jesus defied an empire and championed the poor — a legacy that some Christians are trying to reclaim.

Nationally, Catholic voters have been closely divided in recent presidential elections. This year, in the vital state of Pennsylvania, they'll likely comprise at least a quarter of the electorate - and thus play a pivotal role in deciding the overall outcome.

Former independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appears in a new TV ad urging Catholics to support Republican former President Trump in the upcoming election.

The New Right has a blueprint for taking power. JD Vance could be following it.

A living wage 'is necessary and just, and is fundamental to Catholic social teaching because it is closely linked to human dignity,' says the Church People-Workers Solidarity

No major political party embodies a consistent ethic of life.

Gavin Newsom wants to tweak California's program for improving educational outcomes of at-risk students, but misses its fundamental flaws.

Illegal migrants crossing the U.S. southern border show signs of "worsening trauma," the Associated Press reported, including witnessing murders and...

Pope Francis and almost 200 cardinals of the Catholic Church have convened an extraordinary consistory at the Vatican for the first time in seven years.

Pelosi sat in the VIP section of the church and received communion

The Jesuit Nativity School in Worcester, Massachusetts, says it won't change how it operates since it receives no money from the diocese.

Pope Francis announced the first appointments Tuesday under his newly reformed Vatican bureaucracy.

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Catholic advocacy organization hopes to capitalize on abortion, LGBT issues and religious liberties with Hispanic and Latino voters.

Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone of San Francisco tweeted, 'The attempted desecration is enormous. Diabolical.'

A real divide exists among American Catholic voters.

Ohio Sen. JD Vance's 2019 conversion to Catholicism helped shape his political worldview. It also put him in close touch with a Catholic intellectual movement known as postliberalism, viewed by some critics as having reactionary or authoritarian leanings.

It's raised controversy with its unfortunate treatment of trans people. But its own arguments support their right to self-determination.

Cases of clergy abuse among Black Americans are especially underreported, but data from dioceses that include Black Catholic churches shows the problem might be quite widespread.