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The USCCB department facing cuts includes programs focused on international policy, environmental justice, racism and domestic anti-poverty initiatives. 

Yes, the devil is working hard to lead us to despair over global warming, but the Spirit is also alive in many dedicated people doing exciting work in response to climate change, writes Reese. 

According to a letter Sen. Chuck Grassley sent Ascension, whistleblowers disclosed proposed changes to staffing with SCP Health, the new firm overseeing physician staffing, that could have hospitalists seeing twice the national average of patients per day.

Catholic numbers in battleground states make them a good weathervane, and indeed they tend to vote for the winner in presidential elections. If you win Catholics, you probably win the country.

‘We think we have put together a dream team,’ said organizers of the event, which hopes to reconcile quantum theory and cosmology.

'Everything that happens in the United States impacts the southern border of the US and the northern border of Mexico,' the Rev. Francisco Bueno said. 'We always have to be at the ready.'

Investing in international climate assistance is fundamentally about justice.

My mission is to teach transgender individuals about the sacredness of our environment, emphasizing that it is God's land where all are loved and accepted. 

Disagreements exist over liturgy, the role of women, clericalism, sex abuse, church teaching and cultural and racial differences. But despite these tensions, the report sees reasons for hope.

A survey indicates while many believe Trump’s behavior has been immoral, it may not sway how people vote in November.

The Commission on Faith-based Colleges and Universities, recently announced by the American Council of Education, is set to launch with its first meetings on Tuesday in Washington, D.C.

Dr. Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela is a psychologist who served on South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission and developed a model for social healing.

Part of the new monastic movement began three decades ago among lay Protestants, Spring Forest is a model for how Christians can work, eat and worship as a community.

After months of delay and a legal dispute, the first episode of “The Chosen,” Season Four, will drop on the show’s app at 7 p.m. Eastern on Sunday (June 2).

Francis has reopened the windows that were closed by John Paul and Pope Benedict XVI, but the church is still an institution that will not change until there is global consensus for change.

"Latinos are poised to be leaders in their communities and nationally on environmental issues," said one panelist at this week's Latino Leader Gathering sponsored by Georgetown’s Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life.

Bullying the liberal Catholic magazine Commonweal "smacks of the sort of 'conservatism' Pope Francis recently called 'suicidal' on CBS's "60 Minutes," writes Phyllis Zagano.

We commit grave harm against ourselves through environmental destruction and we go against God's plan for us.

In Norah O'Donnell's TV interview, the pope "smiled, he gestured, he laughed, his eyes sparkled," Thomas Reese writes. CBS "has given the American people a unique opportunity to see the pope as he is, unfiltered."

Dozens of church leaders have been kidnapped or killed by government soldiers or rebel fighters in the decade since the civil war began.