Catholic Review
Inspiring the Archdiocese of Baltimore
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OSV News
Filed Under: Catholic Social Teaching, Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News
New data shows that the number of immigrants lacking permanent legal status in the U.S. “is much lower than the Trump administration claims,” and “talk of an invasion is overblown,” said J. Kevin Appleby, senior fellow for policy and communications at the Center for Migration Studies of New York.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Catholic Social Teaching, Feature, News, Vatican, World News
While the world is still just getting to know him, first impressions appear to hint that Pope Leo XIV doesn’t seem like a pontiff to say, “I told you so.”
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OSV News
Filed Under: Catholic Social Teaching, Commentary
The modern tradition of Catholic social teaching — the toolbox of principles the church calls us to draw upon to build the just social order — was instigated by Pope Leo XIII (1878-1903).
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OSV News
Filed Under: Catholic Social Teaching, News, social media, World News
President Donald Trump on May 19 signed into law the Take It Down Act, a measure that imposes penalties for online sexual exploitation.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Catholic Social Teaching, DOGE cuts, Feature, News, World News
Hundreds of Catholic humanitarian workers are rallying to prevent further — and more permanent — reductions in U.S. federal funding for international aid, which has been slashed under the Trump administration as part of its “America First” policy.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Catholic Social Teaching, DOGE cuts, News, World News
The confirmation of Brian Burch, President Donald Trump’s nominee for U.S. ambassador to the Holy See, was blocked May 13 amid a hold by a Senate Democrat on State Department nominees in protest of the Trump administration’s closure of the U.S. Agency for International Development.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Catholic Social Teaching, Feature, News, Vatican, World News
The Catholic community is alive, beautiful and strong, and it is up to its pastors to protect and nourish the faithful and to help bring God’s hope to the whole world, Pope Leo XIV said.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Catholic Social Teaching, News, Respect Life, World News
Katie McMahon helps other women navigate questions like these as the co-founder of Shiloh IVF Ministry, a ministry that offers hope and healing those impacted by IVF. Her story is one of many: Estimates suggest more than 1 million frozen embryos exist in the United States alone.
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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.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Catholic Social Teaching, News, Remembering Pope Francis, World News
Former President Joe Biden mourned the passing of Pope Francis in an opinion piece for USA Today published April 28, calling for people to honor the late pontiff by “making his legacy a living legacy. A living faith. A faith of caring and compassion — and mercy.”
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OSV News
Filed Under: Catholic Social Teaching, DOGE cuts, News, World News
Debates over a plan to reorganize the State Department should seek to improve American “efforts in the world at diplomacy and global citizenship,” and should prioritize human rights and humanitarian efforts, a leading foreign policy expert told OSV News.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Bishops, Catholic Social Teaching, Feature, News, World News
A second Trump administration could present both challenges and opportunities for issue areas related to Catholic social teaching, bishops and policymakers said at the Napa Institute Citizens of Faith Conference on April 9.
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