John Carr's vocation was as a layman working to help the church share, apply and act on the principles of Catholic social teaching. Now retired, he looks back on his 50 years of service and shares ...

ROME-- Few efforts to cajole corporations into a deeper sense of social responsibility have been more celebrated than the “Sullivan Principles,” elaborated in the late 1970s by African-American ...

Catholic involvement in civic life is necessary to defend human dignity and move society in a positive direction, says the author of a new book on Catholics principles in public life. "If we want a ...

The fact that the vice president is also engaged in a very public back-and-forth with the U.S. bishops, who he said have participated in federal refugee-resettlement programs out of concern for “their ...

Pope Francis compared popular movements to the Good Samaritan, and said that these two things reminded him of the protests which happened because of the death of George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man ...

The Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) launched a program of “review and renewal” on October 26, acknowledging mistakes and pledging to uphold “Catholic principles” in all future decisions ...

Worshippers attend a mass at Xishiku Cathedral, also known as Beitang, on Christmas Eve in Beijing in this Dec. 24, 2019, file photo. Two state-sponsored church bodies in China have elected new ...

The Vatican Bank, officially known as the Institute for the Works of Religion (IOR), launched on Tuesday two new equity benchmarks in the US and the Eurozone, which are "fully aligned with Catholic ...