As Uganda approaches the 2026 elections, public discussions continue to focus on divisive cultural debates, often at the expense of more urgent human realities. Among these are the daily struggles ...

The audience was scheduled before the deployment of National Guard troops to protect federal property in the Chicago area, including a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building that has been ...

Pope Leo XIV, writing in the first major document of his pontificate, has denounced the “dictatorship” of economic inequality while insisting the Catholic Church is committed to supporting “rejected” ...

Hauwa, a 25-year-old woman, was lying on the floor, shackled, and barely alive when Human Rights Watch found her in November 2024 in a state-run institution in Kano, Nigeria. She was deaf and had a ...

I often wonder, even though the teaching of Sacred Scripture is so clear about the poor, why many people continue to think that they can safely disregard the poor,” Pope Leo XIV states in his first ...

People walk in a prayerful procession for the 111th World Day of Migrants and Refugees on Sept. 28, 2025 that began at the Shrine of the Sacred Heart in Washington, D.C., wound down 16th Street, and ...

He also expressed concern at “the rise of anti-Semitic hatred in the world,” following the terrorist attack on a synagogue in Manchester, England, this past week.

Pope Leo XIV has issued the first major document since his election in May, a meditation on poverty. The document was begun by Pope Francis, who died in April, and finished by Pope Leo. It was ...

In October the Philippines celebrates the National Indigenous Peoples Month following Presidential Proclamation No 1906.

Nearly 70 years ago, the world-renowned psychiatrist and Nazi concentration camp survivor, Viktor E. Frankl, MD, PhD, called attention to three major societal ills: aggression, addiction, and ...

Signed in the Vatican on October 4, Dilexi te is formally known as an Apostolic begun by Pope Francis and dedicated to the broad subject of Christian duty to care for the poor.

St. Patrick’s Pontifical University has conferred an honorary doctorate to Sister Orla Treacy, whose work in South Sudan has transformed the lives of hundreds of girls.