Present and past colleagues of Jesuit Father Drew Christiansen paid tribute to the Middle East and foreign policy scholar and former magazine editor who died April 6.
Jesuit Fr. Drew Christiansen, a professor at Georgetown University and formerly head of the U.S. bishops' Office of International Justice and Peace, died early April 6 in Washington. He was 77.
"Knowing what we know about civilian casualties, a just war cannot be fought today," said Jeffery Nicholas, an associate professor of philosophy at Providence College in Rhode Island.
Russia and Ukraine are two of the world's largest wheat-producing countries. Their decreased exports due to war may affect U.S. farmers already struggling from droughts.
Developed by a group of nearly 100 institutional investors coordinated by the New York-based Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, the statement details what the group expects to see from corporations as they transition to a more sustainable economy.
People of faith looking to see their values reflected in their politics cannot give up in the face of legislative setbacks, said members of a Feb. 1 panel, "Faith, Politics and Policy in 2022: What Is a Faithful Agenda Now?"
Trying to advance the economic status of American Indians is like playing a game of Monopoly that they can never win, said panelists during a plenary session of the Catholic Social Ministry Gathering.
An essay by Kathleen McChesney on the impact of the U.S. bishops' Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People drew a sharp rebuke by the executive director of the Survivor's Network of Those Abused by Priests.
The COVID-19 pandemic remained a significant concern for parishes and schools, as Catholics navigated changing policies and partisan views on mask and vaccine mandates. Despite the pope's urging, millions of Catholics have refused to get vaccinated.
A study issued by the Economic Policy Institute shows that even in the tech sector, immigrants are paid less than their U.S. counterparts, though federal law says that's not supposed to happen.
The Feb. 1 coup by Myanmar's military forces, overthrowing the democratically elected government, has made a bad situation only worse for the nation's religious and ethnic minority groups.
A new federation to focus on issues surrounding Hispanic family ministry has been formed by the National Association of Catholic Family Life Ministers.
Panelists at one Sept. 27 forum during an online conference on immigration law and policy noted that the asylum process, like much else in the U.S. immigration system, is in need of its own fixes.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said current conditions in Haiti allowed for the return of some of the estimated 14,000 Haitian migrants who crossed earlier in September from Mexico into Del Rio, Texas.
