Brian Roewe

A group of priests, religious and laypeople who support abuse survivors, known as Catholic Whistleblowers, sent a letter on Easter to the U.S. bishops' conference asking for seven reforms to the 2002 Dallas Charter and to the Essential Norms policy for handling  sexual abuse allegations.

The string of resignations comes two months after SNAP quietly settled a lawsuit with a former employee who accused the group of a "kickback" scheme where it referred abuse survivors to attorneys in exchange for donations.

Catholic students were among the organizers of more than 800 sibling marches to the national March for Our Lives in Washington, D.C. Senior Tyler White, who helped planned Portland's march, said "I was ignited."

"Bees are essential and important to life as we know it; we just don't know it. So let's learn about it," said Charlie "CharBee" Koenen, a beekeeper/enthusiast who leads lessons on bees at Marquette University.

Cardinal John Ribat has long spoken out about the impacts of climate change on the people of the Pacific islands, considered one of the ground zeros of global climate change, where rising seas have submerged portions of islands and have already led to communities relocating from their homes to nearby islands.

Thousands of students in the U.S. exited their classrooms Wednesday, marking the one-month anniversary of the Feb. 14 massacre at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

A newly hired chief financial officer of a Catholic university outside Miami resigned Tuesday after uproar over her recent appointment to the board of the company that manufactured the weapon used in last month’s mass shooting at a Florida high school.

"The idea of arming teachers seems to raise more concerns than it addresses," said the heads of two committees of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

As high schoolers lead the push for gun control, among more than 100 bills idling on Capitol Hill are efforts to expand background checks, restrict some guns, and regulate flamethrowers.

About 1,000 Catholic school students took action Wednesday in Ft. Lauderdale, on behalf of the 17 people killed by a gunman at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in nearby Parkland, Florida. 

Fifty years after a historic strike by sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee, two social justice movements joined forces Monday through a series of nationwide rallies in renewing a broad-based push for racial and economic justice.

Healing Earth, a free online textbook from Loyola University Chicago, blends environmental science with ethics, theology and spirituality for upper-level secondary school and college students.

Lending public support Tuesday to its excommunicated members in Lincoln, Nebraska, the national Call to Action office called for Bishop James Conley to lift the excommunication order "immediately and without condition." 

After 16-month dialogue, the proposal would return Call to Action members to full communion on an individual basis, while leaving in place the 1996 decree against the reform group.

In a docudrama airing on PBS, the 13th-century meeting between St. Francis of Assisi and Sultan Malik al-Kamil gets a fresh look amid our present-day tensions and dehumanization.

 Fr. John Drees, parochial administrator of the Churches of St. Joseph and St. Francis Xavier, fired three musicians Dec. 5, after the priest had learned of their same-sex marriages; parishioners demonstrated overwhelming support for them, not the decision. 

In the wake of President Donald Trump announcing formal U.S. recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, longtime observers react with apprehension, while other express appreciation.

A memorial Mass Dec. 9 in Dayton, Ohio, will remember Kristine Ward, a lay Catholic compelled by the Boston Globe's 2002 clergy sex abuse investigations to become a prominent advocate for survivors.

At public hearings this week in the heart of coal country, local and national Catholic groups argued the moral case for preserving national standards on carbon pollution from power plants. 

The apology was part of a settlement between SNAP and Fr. Joseph Jiang, who had sued the group and the parents of a boy who accused him of sexual abuse, charges that were dropped.