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Social Justice

Catholics concerned as U.S. child labor violations increase and lawmakers seek to weaken laws

March 8, 2023
By Kimberly Heatherington
OSV News
Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, Feature, News, Social Justice, World News

According to recently published reports and investigations, minors are toiling in some of the most dangerous conditions in American industry, such as construction, slaughterhouses and assembly lines.

Monsignor Burke leaves legacy of striving for social justice, devotion to city parish

March 6, 2023
By Gerry Jackson
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Obituaries, Social Justice

Monsignor William F. Burke’s easy-going style enabled him to lead a Northeast Baltimore parish for more than four decades while serving as the Archdiocese of Baltimore’s driving force for social justice, according to those beside whom he served and labored. Monsignor Burke, a Baltimore native and mentor to dozens of the region’s priests, died March […]

RADIO INTERVIEW: Catholic Social Teaching and Public Life

March 6, 2023
By Catholic Review Staff
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Lent, Local News, News, Radio Interview, Social Justice

Catholic Review Editor Christopher Gunty talks with Kim Daniels, director of the Initiative about its 10th anniversary and how Catholics can help participate in a civil discussion with others – even if they disagree.

Catholics face ‘new moment’ for church teaching on war and peace, cardinal says

March 6, 2023
By Catherine Odell
OSV News
Filed Under: Crisis in Ukraine, Feature, News, Social Justice, World News

Offering a comprehensive but engaging overview of both traditional and modern Catholic teaching on war and peace, Cardinal Robert W. McElroy of San Diego spoke March 1 at the University of Notre Dame, assuring his audience that the church will never be done speaking out about war and peace.

Catholic advocates praise Biden administrative actions to combat child migrant labor exploitation

March 3, 2023
By Kate Scanlon
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, Social Justice, World News

The departments of Labor and Health and Human Services said they would audit the vetting process of adults who sponsor migrant children out of government custody, and increase their efforts to investigate and prosecute cases of child exploitation.

COVID-era SNAP payments end as inflation soars, drawing Catholic concern over US food insecurity

March 3, 2023
By Kate Scanlon
OSV News
Filed Under: Catholic Charities, Coronavirus, Feature, News, Social Justice, World News

A pandemic-era program that provided extra payments to Americans who qualify for food stamps ended March 1, causing concern for some Catholic advocates about how low-income individuals and families will put food on the table.

At 10 years, Pope Francis makes Americans ‘uncomfortable’ in their political views, Cardinal Wilton Gregory says

March 1, 2023
By Kate Scanlon
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Social Justice, Vatican, World News

As Pope Francis prepares to mark the tenth anniversary of his pontificate in March, one hallmark of his papacy has been to make both sides of the American political aisle “uncomfortable,” panelists, including Washington’s Cardinal Wilton Gregory, said at a Feb. 28 event hosted by Georgetown University’s Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life.

Social Ministry Convocation returns to in-person event

February 28, 2023
By Mary K. Tilghman
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Social Justice

After two years of COVID-related online-only meeting, the Archdiocese of Baltimore’s annual Social Ministry Convocation returned to an in-person gathering at Mercy High School Feb. 25, with 275 attendees.

Georgetown panel examines dangers to democracy, Catholics’ role in healing divisions

February 19, 2023
By Kate Scanlon
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Social Justice, U.S. Congress, World News

Catholics have a responsibility to address rising threats to democratic norms in civic and social life, panelists said at a Feb. 16 event hosted by Georgetown University’s Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life.

Advocates say big events like Super Bowl are good time to raise awareness of human trafficking

February 12, 2023
By Our Sunday Visitor
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Social Justice, Sports, World News

The Feb. 12 Super Bowl, which kicks off at 6:30 p.m., “sadly serves as a danger zone for sex trafficking, labor trafficking and domestic violence,” said the executive director of the National Advocacy Center of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, based in the Washington suburb of Silver Spring.

Affordable child care key component of post-Roe response, advocates say

February 5, 2023
By Kate Scanlon
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, Marriage & Family Life, News, Respect Life, Social Justice, World News

Affordable child care must be a core component of a post-Roe response from the Church, advocates at the Catholic Social Ministry Gathering said on Jan. 30.

Speakers address how local churches can protect lives of mothers, unborn children from domestic violence

February 4, 2023
By Kimberly Heatherington
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Social Justice, World News

Mary McClusky, assistant director of Project Rachel Ministry Development at the USCCB Secretariat of Pro-Life Activities, said that, despite the fact that the lives of both pregnant women and their children in domestic violence situations are often at risk, there is always hope.

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