Since 1974, the Texas Industrial Areas Foundation and its local affiliates have taken on a range of social and political issues. For its members and organizers, the work is perfectly aligned with Catholic teaching.
Facing a shrinking group of priests, the Paulist Fathers on March 13 announced the society will close three national offices and leave two campus ministry programs, including its 117-year ministry in Berkeley, California.
The Mexican bishops' conference, the Society of Jesus and the Conference of Major Superiors of Religious of Mexico convened the country's three presidential candidates March 11 to sign their National Agenda for Peace -- a roadmap for pacifying Mexico and the starting point for dialogue with the next government.
District Judge Francisco Dominguez in El Paso issued an order blocking Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's subpoena of Annunciation House, indicating both that Paxton's effort seemed politically motivated and that it must go through appropriate due process in the state court system.
Amid the worst security crisis in Haiti in several years — one that has been particularly hard for church members — Prime Minister Ariel Henry resigned after weeks of mounting chaos in the Caribbean nation.
"It's happening everywhere. It can happen to anyone," Maryknoll Sr. Abby Avelino, international coordinator of Talitha Kum, said during an online panel. "Everybody has a role to play to combat human trafficking."
A now former Catholic priest was removed from his parish after going to Japan to apologize for the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings. Now he is back in Japan as part of a pilgrimage of local U.S. Pax Christi leaders.
Sociologist Tricia Bruce, just named as a consultor for the General Secretariat of the Synod, sees an important role for the social sciences in the synod process.
Claire Babineaux-Fontenot, CEO of Feeding America, has been named the recipient of the University of Notre Dame's 2024 Laetare Medal, the oldest and most prestigious honor given to American Catholics.