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Social Justice

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.

Church and community groups must infuse love into a culture of gun violence, say panelists

February 3, 2023
By Maria-Pia Negro Chin
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, Gun Violence, News, Social Justice, World News

During a Jan. 29 plenary session at the 2023 Catholic Social Ministry Gathering in Washington, Archbishop Gustavo García-Siller of San Antonio made an impassioned plea to treat all people with dignity, calling gun violence a pro-life issue.

2023 Catholic Social Ministry Gathering a ‘sign of faith, hope and love coming alive’

February 3, 2023
By Kate Scanlon
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Social Justice, World News

Speakers and participants at the 2023 Catholic Social Ministry Gathering explored how social justice ministries of the church are often intertwined, from how the sin of racism impacts housing to how economic and social policies that uplift women and families can save lives from abortion and other forms of violence.

Social ministry ‘fundamentally a work of faith,’ cardinal says

February 1, 2023
By Julie Asher
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Social Justice, World News

Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory of Washington thanked attendees at the 2023 Catholic Social Ministry Gathering for “the service and sacrifices” they make to “preach the Gospel and share Catholic teaching in these discordant times.”

Archbishop Lori tells conference to look at ‘root’ of violence, poverty

January 31, 2023
By Maria-Pia Negro Chin
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Social Justice

Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore, vice president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said that in order to help mothers and children thrive as a way to build peace, “we really have to think about the root causes of the violence and the poverty that we see all around us.”

Make Jesus’ ‘Gospel friendship’ the heart of Catholic social ministry, says Baltimore’s Bishop Lewandowski

January 30, 2023
By Julie Asher
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Social Justice

Auxiliary Bishop Bruce A. Lewandowski of Baltimore recalled in a homily Jan. 28 the kind of greeting he would always receive from a Puerto Rican woman who was a member of the parish he pastored in Philadelphia’s Kensington section, Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

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