Catholic teaching holds that global interdependence, left morally unstructured, intensifies injustice; cooperation among middle powers appears as a pragmatic analogue to institutional justice.

Vice President-elect J.D. Vance is not a typical Republican in the corporate-friendly international interventionist mold that has dominated the party for the last several decades. Since he ventured ...

(RNS) — Labor Day is approaching, and just a few days later I will begin teaching my fall classes. Like every fall semester, the largest class I’ll teach will be on Catholic social teaching. This ...

The Observer-Reporter published the AP version of Donald Trump’s appearance at the Al Smith dinner. The fundraiser for Catholic Charities honors Al Smith, who, in 1928, became the first Catholic to ...

JD Vance speaks in the Indian Treaty Room of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus in Washington D.C. on Jan. 25, 2025. (Credit: Rob Lamkey, Jr./AP.) Listen Say what you ...

During the 1980s, John Carr served as the Secretary of Social Concerns for the Archdiocese of Washington, working with the archbishop then, Cardinal James Hickey, as the archdiocese greatly expanded ...

WASHINGTON (RNS) — Cardinals and coworkers praised Carr at his retirement after more than 50 years of work for the Catholic Church.

Depressingly, 40 years since Cardinal Bernardin first proposed the consistent ethic of life, the ethic remains mired in the same senseless, polarized partisanship that Bernardin proposed the ethic to ...