Christopher White writes: More than 80 prominent and emerging Catholic leaders gathered this week in an effort to see how a unified American Catholic Church might offer a better way forward. “Though Many One: Overcoming Polarization through Catholic Social Thought,” hosted by the Initiative for Catholic Social Thought and Public Life at Georgetown University, served… Read More US Catholic Leaders Gather to Discuss Polarization

via CNS: Loving wealth destroys the soul, and cheating people of their just wages and benefits is a mortal sin, Pope Francis said. Jesus did not mince words when he said, “Woe to you who are rich,” after listing the Beatitudes as written according to St. Luke, the pope said in a morning homily. If… Read More Pope Francis: Cheating Workers is a Mortal Sin and Loving Wealth Destroys the Soul

John McGreevy, dean of the College of Arts and Letters and professor of history at the University of Notre Dame, writes in Commonweal: Exiled in the United States after the German army roared through his native France, feverishly working to rally anti-fascist Catholics in North and South America, philosopher Jacques Maritain insisted in a 1941… Read More World War II, Vatican II, and Catholic Support for Democracy

Bishop Daniel Flores of Brownsville writes: Separating immigrant parents and children as a supposed deterrent to immigration is a cruel and reprehensible policy. Children are not instruments of deterrence, they are children. A government that thinks any means is suitable to achieve an end cannot secure justice for anyone.

Pope Francis has asked young people to spend two minutes a day reading the Gospel, saying that this simple practice is enough to change their lives.

Cardinal Blase Cupich responds to a Chicago Tribune editorial that “attempted to provide a counterpoint to Pope Francis’ call for economic justice”: The Vatican recognizes that the Great Recession was not simply a financial crisis, but a moral one. A handful of financial institutions and traders began selling exotic securities that were largely unknown, poorly… Read More Cardinal Cupich: Why does our economy leave so many behind?

Abigail Malone explains why women deserve better than abortion and why Ireland should support women and protect the lives of all people by voting to keep the Eighth Amendment, which protects the right to life: