Jesse Remedios

As the U.S. considers next steps in its involvement in Venezuela's tense stand-off between Nicolás Maduro and Juan Guaidó, economic sanctions raise a tangle of ethical and moral as well as geo-political issues that experts disagree about.

While John Carr emphasized the importance of unity in coming through the crisis and warned against using it to advance ideological priorities, George Weigel credited sex abuse to the influence of Satan, the sexual revolution, a culture of dissent and mass media.

Thousands across the country participate in Good Friday Way of the Cross processions, connecting the dramatic events of Christianity's most solemn day to modern issues facing society.

Speakers at the event emphasized how climate-related disasters and other environmental hazards disproportionately affect low-income and minority communities around the world.

It is a period of transformation in the nation's capital, but Catholic social justice organizations across the area have shown decades of dedication to cause and adaptability. Leaders of these organizations describe a diverse and vibrant D.C.-area Catholic community made of many different groups working in conjunction and collaboration.

Perspective: At 14, I was swept up in Michael Jackson's music. Now I've watched "Leaving Neverland" and found striking similarities to what Catholics face in the church's abuse scandal.

A laid-back atmosphere and coffeehouse setting is the backdrop for stories told at Agape Latte, a popular program at Boston College that sparks students to discuss and reflect on their faith, in an era when many young people are leaving the church. The model has been expanded to more than 50 other schools.

Leading international climate advocates in the Catholic Church stressed the need for urgency — as well as hope — to effectively organize to combat climate change at a March 15 conference on fossil fuel divestment in Washington, D.C.

Georgetown is one of more than five elite universities mentioned in the Justice Department's racketeering indictment that charged 50 people — including 33 parents — with illegally cheating the system to gain unqualified applicants' admittance to top universities. 

A letter CLINIC plans to send to key Cabinet members says that designating Venezuelans for temporary protected status in the U.S. "would potentially safeguard the lives of 72,000" people.

Fr. Thomas Rosica, a Vatican spokesman, has resigned from the governing body of the University of St. Michael’s College, according to a Feb. 25 report in the Canadian press.

Mireille Twayigira, who escaped the Rwandan genocide at the age of three and lost most of her family to sickness while fleeing, made a compelling case for expanding refugee educational services during a Feb. 25 talk at Georgetown University.

Revelations about Virginia leaders using blackface in the '80s has brought national attention to the long history of blackface minstrelsy in the U.S., a history that includes a Catholic connection.

A grassroots gathering of Catholics marched to the Maryland State House in Annapolis on Feb. 18 to advocate directly for the Maryland Clean Energy Jobs Act.

Santa Clara University's Jesuit School of Theology will host a panel discussion on the clergy sex abuse crisis less than a week before the worldwide meeting of bishops at the Vatican.

Younger bishops are generally angrier about the sexual abuse crisis and want to act with more urgency to deal with it than older bishops, said the president of the United States Conference of Catholic bishops.

In a Feb. 5 press release, Washington state's Catholic bishops publicly declared their support for a bill to repeal the death penalty in their state.

Gonzaga University will host the fifth International Conference on Hate Studies April 2-4 at the university's Hemmingson Center. Gonzaga announced the upcoming conference, titled "Building Peace through Dialogue, Kindness, and Forgiveness," in a press release Jan. 30.

This March, Christians who have been touched by the Walk to Emmaus ministry will unite for a five-day cruise to the Caribbean to celebrate the program's 40th anniversary.