By now the Catholic Church’s support of a “living wage” (along with the related but differing “just wage”) is well known. Magisterial social teaching, along with the documents of synods and bishops’ conferences, since the promulgation of Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum has consistently upheld his declaration that one “has a
Two years ago, in February 2022, we gathered here in this Basilica for the first time after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began for a moleben, a Byzantine-rite prayer service during which we pled for peace in Ukraine. I remember the church was filled to the last seat, and there
The Church of Jesus Christ has always been a global one, reaching out to men and women of “every nation, race, people, and tongue” (Rev 7:9) from even before the first Pentecost. Though Jesus’s Apostles were uniformly Middle-Eastern, Simon of Cyrene was from Africa, an African saint drawn to Christ