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Young people can’t afford to live – Rerum Novarum’s answer to the crisis

Young people cannot afford homes. They cannot afford families. The economy is producing conditions that are neither pro-family nor pro-life. Frank Wright turns to Pope Leo XIII’s R...

Sacramentum Caritatis and Humanity: Sunday Reflection

Is there a Catholic form of populism?

"Populism usually has an angry edge to it, and Catholicism always favors a more irenic approach," writes NCR's Michael Sean Winters. 

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Overcome the Age of the Embarrassed Catholic

A good number of modern Catholics often speak about their faith as if they were hostages reading from a prepared statement. Simply repeating Church teaching has never been enough o...

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On Labor Day, 1986 pastoral letter and AI reinforce Catholic Church's duty

The church "is not always the exemplary employer" regarding workers' rights and Catholic doctrine, Aimee Shelide Mayer writes. "The U.S. bishops' 1986 pastoral letter, 'Economic Ju...

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Papal nuncio urges Catholics to use wealth to help the poor

TACLOBAN City — Catholics should use their wealth to help the poor, whose gratitude may one day welcome them into heaven, papal nuncio Archbishop Charles Brown said Monday. Preachi...

Sexual Ethics is Social Ethics: Why You Can't Have One Without Other

Angelus After Pope Leo XIV's promulgation of his first encyclical, "Magnifica Humanitas," The New York Times ran an opinion article by a Catholic journalist that asserted the pope...

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The Golden Rule and the crisis of Black Catholic belonging in the church

If the Golden Rule is essential, then so is belonging. In Christ, we are called into communion, into a Body where every member matters.

Video: Catholicism and Religious Freedom

Dr. Larry Chap, Gaudium et Spes 22 Religious freedom is not a novel idea within Catholicism.