Social Justice

Cardinal Peter Turkson, the former prefect of the Vatican’s Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, told a New Orleans symposium that the Catholic Church encourages CEOs and other business leaders to embrace the notion of their being “co-creators” with God.

During a U.N. education summit, the Vatican’s secretary of state reiterated Pope Francis’ pre-pandemic call that education is “one of the most effective ways of making our work and history more human.”

Amid a U.N. warning that a famine is looming in Somalia, Baltimore-based Catholic Relief Services is calling for increased humanitarian support in the Horn of Africa country.

As the domestic anti-poverty program of the U.S. Catholic bishops, CCHD says one of its central beliefs is “that those who are directly affected by unjust systems and structures have the best insight into knowing how to change them.”