US bishops’ conference calls for ‘drastic changes’ in Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ June 27, 2025By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Social Justice, U.S. Congress, World News The U.S. bishops’ conference on June 26 reiterated its support for and opposition to various provisions in the budget bill under consideration in the Senate called the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
Cuban bishops urge leaders to address nation’s economic crisis June 18, 2025By Junno Arocho Esteves OSV News Filed Under: Jubilee 2025, News, Social Justice, World News The bishops of Cuba said the island nation’s economic situation and its people’s dire circumstances can no longer be ignored and must be addressed by its leaders.
Delaware garden of plenty provides food to needy, thanks to Vincentians, parishes June 14, 2025By Cathy Rossie OSV News Filed Under: Environment, News, Social Justice, World News An expansive garden sitting on a third of an acre of parish property at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in Frankford, the mission church of St. Ann Parish in Bethany Beach, serves neighbors in need within the boundaries of both churches and is the only one of its kind in the Wilmington Diocese.
With jobs disappearing, cardinal says he ‘rejoiced’ at pope’s name choice May 14, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Social Justice, Vatican, World News Cardinal Michael Czerny said that when Cardinal Robert F. Prevost was elected pope and chose the name Leo XIV, “I rejoiced, I really rejoiced.”
As poor rejoice, cardinal says pope’s electors ‘weren’t dealing with world,’ but ‘with the kingdom of God’ May 12, 2025By Paulina Guzik OSV News Filed Under: News, Social Justice, Vatican, World News The needy of the Eternal City were glad to have their cardinal back from conclave, Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, sharing news about the new pontiff — who was “chosen by the Holy Spirit,” the prelate said.
Catholic Labor Network urges Trump to rescind order limiting collective bargaining April 29, 2025By Kimberly Heatherington OSV News Filed Under: Catholic Social Teaching, Feature, News, Social Justice, World News The Trump administration has collided with a legal roadblock in its quest to limit the collective bargaining rights of almost 160,000 federal government employees belonging to the National Treasury Employees Union, or NTEU.
Kansas women religious, other Catholics join anti-mining fight in El Salvador April 12, 2025By Rhina Guidos GSR Filed Under: News, Social Justice, World News Some 80 Benedictines at the Mount St. Scholastica community near Kansas City joined Sister Mary Elizabeth, their prioress, in signing a “Yes to life, no to mining” petition they sent to El Salvador.
Special week puts focus on how food gets to Americans’ tables — through farmworkers’ labor March 24, 2025By Simone Orendain OSV News Filed Under: Immigration and Migration, News, Social Justice, World News Farms are in every state in the country, producing fruits, vegetables, grains, dairy and raising animals for consumption. It all makes its way to the nation’s dinner tables.
The Resource Exchange furnishes a need at St. Vincent de Paul Parish March 20, 2025By Gerry Jackson Catholic Review Filed Under: Local News, News, Social Justice When Peggy Cronyn co-founded The Resource Exchange, she saw it as a way to meet a critical need in her parish at St. Vincent de Paul and put her professional skills to good use. Fourteen years later, the Jonestown parish program has helped furnish more than 1,400 homes for people who had previously experienced homelessness.
Priests helping relatives of victims of Philippine ‘war on drugs’ jubilant over Duterte’s arrest March 17, 2025By Simone Orendain OSV News Filed Under: News, Social Justice, World News Two Philippine priests who work with those affected by their country’s deadly anti-drug campaign under then-President Rodrigo Duterte are closely monitoring developments in the former president’s March 11 arrest and detention at the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
Expanding child tax credits seen as a pro-life, anti-poverty lifeline for families March 15, 2025By Kimberly Heatherington OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, Social Justice, World News After 2025, the federal tax credit is scheduled to drop to just $1,000 per qualifying child.
Social Ministry planning conference scheduled for March 8 at Calvert Hall February 25, 2025By Gerry Jackson Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Social Justice For nearly 50 years, the Catholic Campaign for Human Development’s Social Ministry Convocation has been a staple for the Archdiocese of Baltimore, enabling it to inspire, educate and support the mission to fight systemic poverty.
