The digital pontiff: Pope Leo XIV makes AI a top issue June 5, 2025By Kimberly Heatherington 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.”
Catholic social teaching is for everyone May 22, 2025By Jason Adkins 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).
‘Take it Down Act’ to combat online sexual exploitation signed into law May 20, 2025By Kate Scanlon 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.
CRS rallies advocates, lawmakers against proposed long-term cuts to foreign aid May 19, 2025By Gina Christian 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.
Senate protest over USAID closure snares Vatican ambassador pick May 16, 2025By Kate Scanlon 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.
Pope Leo: A pope is nothing more than a humble servant May 11, 2025By Carol Glatz 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.
Shilo IV Ministry offers hope, healing April 30, 2025By Katie Yoder 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.
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.
Biden: ‘All of us who loved Pope Francis need to step up’ April 28, 2025By Kate Scanlon 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.”
State Department urged to prioritize human rights, humanitarian aid in reorganization April 24, 2025By Kate Scanlon 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.
Napa conference examines ‘the good, the bad’ of the new Trump administration April 10, 2025By Kate Scanlon 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.
Health care access and the common good: What should Americans expect? April 4, 2025By Kimberly Heatherington OSV News Filed Under: Catholic Social Teaching, Health Care, News, World News In a system not impervious to market forces, the health outcomes Americans expect and what they actually receive may seem like two different things — and may also lead Catholics to wonder what’s morally required from networks forced to consider both care delivery and the bottom line.
