Supreme Court to Weigh Religious Home Gatherings Against Local Zoning Rules
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case that will test whether municipalities can require special permits for small religious gatherings held in private…
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Bishops urge flexibility in federal migrant child sponsor vetting to keep families together
The U.S. Catholic bishops have warned federal health officials that overly rigid sponsor-vetting requirements for unaccompanied migrant children could prevent qualified family members from taking in…
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Federal Judge Halts Illinois Assisted Suicide Law for Catholic Providers and Objecting Doctors
A federal judge has temporarily blocked enforcement of Illinois’s assisted suicide law against Catholic health care entities, Catholic physicians, and a Lutheran nursing home, granting relief…
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Archbishop Urges U.S. to Reconsider Haiti Deportations Following Mass Killing and Abductions
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Bishops and Faith Leaders Press White House to Extend El Salvador Deportation Protections Before September Deadline
A broad coalition of Catholic bishops, faith-based organizations, and religious leaders has sent a formal letter to President…
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Jesuits to Consolidate Five U.S. and Canadian Novitiates Into Two Regional Centers by 2028
The Jesuits of the United States and Canada have announced plans to merge their five novitiates into two…
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Al Smith, New York’s Four-Term Governor, Battled Poverty and Anti-Catholic Bias on the Road to the White House
Among the most compelling figures in American Catholic public life, Alfred Emanuel Smith rose from the tenements of…
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Faith and the shape of our common life.
Family · Essay
The Quiet Return of the Family Dinner, and Why It Matters
Sociologists find what the catechism long assumed about the table.
Culture · Review
A Catholic Literary Revival, Twenty Years in the Making
A generation of novelists takes the faith seriously again.
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Land, energy, and the care of what we are given.
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- Rerum NovarumOn Capital and Labor — Pope Leo XIII1891
- Quadragesimo AnnoOn the Reconstruction of the Social Order — Pope Pius XI1931
- Mater et MagistraChristianity and Social Progress — Pope John XXIII1961
- Laborem ExercensOn Human Work — Pope John Paul II1981
- Centesimus AnnusOn the Hundredth Anniversary of Rerum Novarum — Pope John Paul II1991
- Caritas in VeritateOn Integral Human Development in Charity and Truth — Pope Benedict XVI2009
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