In fight to end human trafficking, educating migrants about risks they face called ‘essential’ March 9, 2024By Kurt Jensen OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, Social Justice, World News Ask women religious leaders on the front lines of the fight against human trafficking and the exploitation of cheap migrant labor, and you hear less about government programs and more about educating the migrants.
Catholic Charities, three other major nonprofits ‘team up’ to counter polarization in U.S. March 8, 2024By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Catholic Charities, News, Social Justice, World News Four major nonprofits have launched a joint effort to counteract rising polarization and isolation in the U.S., including Catholic Charities USA, the organization dedicated to carrying out the domestic humanitarian work of the Catholic Church in the United States.
Catholic Extension’s Spirit of Francis honoree called ‘great model’ of award’s namesakes March 7, 2024By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: News, Social Justice, World News Catholic Extension Society recently honored Dominican Sister Jane Meyer, former head of school at St. Agnes Academy, with its seventh annual Houston Spirit of Francis Award for her decades of commitment to Catholic education and promotion of social justice.
3 years after drug decriminalization, Oregon now faces a state of emergency February 26, 2024By Kimberly Heatherington OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Social Justice, World News But three years later, a nationwide surge in fentanyl use has collided with Measure 110’s legalized tolerance to create a perfect storm of overburdened social services, policing and community dynamics.
Speakers: Catholics must make connection between Eucharist, church’s social teaching February 16, 2024By Kurt Jensen OSV News Filed Under: Eucharist, Feature, News, Social Justice, World News Although the Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches that “the Eucharist commits us to the poor,” many still don’t make this connection between the sacrament that is the “source and summit of the Christian life” and Catholic social teaching.
LifeWay Network, a U.S. nonprofit, helps human trafficking survivors adjust to a new normal February 11, 2024By Elizabeth Crumbly OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Social Justice, World News As volunteers for LifeWay’s community housing program, Sisters Claudia Stecker and Kate O’Neill help human trafficking survivors put their lives back together.
Caritas Argentina, government renew agreement on soup kitchens; hunger concerns remain February 7, 2024By David Agren OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Social Justice, World News Argentina’s bishops expressed concern over rampant hunger and government cuts to parish soup kitchens, warning libertarian President Javier Milei that “food cannot be a variable in economic adjustments.”
Experts: Spending priorities, rising debt make the federal budget a ‘moral document’ February 4, 2024By Kimberly Heatherington OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Social Justice, U.S. Congress, World News For those Catholics actively ministering to the poor, congressional spending and saving priorities — when measured against the concerns of Catholic social teaching — might appear imbalanced.
Personnel, programs at diocesan Catholic Charities agencies help feed a hungry nation February 3, 2024By Kimberly Heatherington OSV News Filed Under: Catholic Charities, Feature, News, Social Justice, World News During Poverty Awareness Month, OSV News talked with Catholic Charities offices across the country — in Virginia, Mississippi and Nevada — to learn how they help feed a hungry nation.
The poor you have always with you February 1, 2024By Effie Caldarola OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Social Justice Somewhere in your community, there is a chance to be present to those who struggle.
France’s Catholic bishops strongly back farmers in their massive protest January 29, 2024By Caroline de Sury OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Social Justice, World News France’s bishops stand in solidarity with farmers protesting across the country. After days of protests in the local provinces, farmers were determined to block the main roads leading to Paris, with spectacular traffic jams of tractors and farm vehicles they formed Jan. 29 across the French capital.
Care for the poor ‘cannot be separated’ from faith, pope tells ambassadors January 29, 2024By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Social Justice, Vatican, World News Keeping the Catholic faith and caring for the poor, sick and afflicted are inseparable, Pope Francis said.
