It's easy to complain about the "institutional church." But the speedy and generous response to the crisis in Ukraine shows the value of our ecclesial institutions in coming to the aid of desperate people.
While staffers with Catholic Relief Services delivered needed supplies to far-flung parts of the globe, students at the Georgia Institute of Technology studied how the agency's missions of mercy could be done with fewer car emissions that contribute to a warming planet.
Catholic Charities agencies across the country have met the increased demand for their services brought about by the pandemic, even as they deal with their own internal challenges — everything from canceled fundraisers to staff members who have tested positive for the virus.
As finance ministers representing the world's wealthiest countries prepare to meet online, Caritas Internationalis echoed Pope Francis' call for debt relief to poor countries reeling from war, poverty and the coronavirus pandemic.
Book review: Stephen Puleo's detailed history explores the charitable efforts Americans — rural and urban, immigrant and native-born, Christian, Quaker and Jewish — made to alleviate Irish suffering in the 1840s.
One of the challenges of preachers in Catholic churches and many Protestant churches is that they must preach each Sunday on the Scripture readings in the Common Lectionary rather than simply use their favorite passages of the Bible.
Perspective: Kathy Kelly is a peace activist who, from the start of the first Gulf War in 1991, has traveled to U.S. war zones. She shares lessons learned from the rampage, destruction and cruelty of U.S. wars.
After more than a year leading local recovery efforts from a massive flood, two pastors have a toolkit lessons they can draw from in the event that another storm hits their neighborhood.
Catholic Relief Services cut its services to needy people in the Gaza Strip by closing a U.S. government-funded program because of the Anti-Terrorism Clarification Act (ACTA).
