Social Justice

The fields of California's Central Valley, cultivated by migrants, shine a light on how our habits and policies fail to honor the people whose hands feed us.

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A theology of baptism offers an alternate vision in which people with serious mental illness are not just patients, but agents.

How do we reform a system that treats mental illness only when it is intertwined with a criminal charge?

When we open our hearts, homes, and even minivans in Christian hospitality, God assures us that we will entertain angels.

Mass deportation can never be justified—it poisons human society.

Pope Leo XIV’s choice of papal name is profoundly significant. What might the new pontiff have to say about the social and technological challenges facing us in the 2020s?

Francis's new encyclical, 'Dilexit nos,' joins religious devotion to social and political justice.

In his new documentary, Richard Linklater comes home to Huntsville, Texas: a town organized by the business of state executions.

Neoliberalism is doomed. Could a new model of social democracy replace it?

For William J. Barber II, the soul of America cannot be saved unless the rejected lead a moral and political revival.

Helen Keller's public image is benignly inspiring. A new book digs into her identity as a radical Leftist whose politics were rooted in her faith.

Rev. Traci Blackmon and her tradition of prophetic Black faith remain the moral epicenter of the social-justice movement in the United States.

Pope Francis is the greatest advocate on the world stage for migrants and refugees. For him, the issue is personal.

Contrary to popular belief, the United States fails to live up to its promised values of freedom and fairness. But are those even the worthy ideals to strive toward?

Simone Weil went into the factory to find out more about the social conditions of the modern worker in capitalism. Instead, she found Jesus Christ.

The Bronx has seen bad times before. The fixes usually come local.

The late Tom Cornell was an antiwar and civil-rights activist, a journalist, a farmer, and a devoted member of the Catholic Worker movement.

Faith-rooted community organizing, with its emphasis on building relationships and developing practical strategies, can help us think about synodality.

Liberation theology shaped Paul Farmer’s quest to make medicine more human.

Palm Sunday reminds us that some joys cannot be experienced until we have first experienced sorrow.

Neoliberalism has failed. Catholic social teaching can help us replace it with something better.

What is the role of the Sant’Egidio community in New York City?

A new book seeks to update Msgr. John A. Ryan’s vision of a moral economy for our own day and age.

A real commitment to equal consideration demands preferential treatment for those whose basic rights are most imperiled.

Ecological systems—fungi in particular—provide a way to consider interdependence and relationships outside of competition and neoliberalism.

Fr. Stan Swamy dedicated his life to serving the poor in India, fighting for the rights of the most marginalized members of society.

Protests are both acts of mourning and remembrance.

The American penal system is deeply dysfunctional, particularly in its treatment of the mentally ill.

Fr. Gregory MacLeod embraced the world “as it is.”

Against the epic forces of history, the Polish poet Adam Zagajewski emphasized little privacies.

From the archives: a 1971 interview with the late Swiss Catholic theologian Hans Küng

An exhibit at MoMA PS1 teaches visitors to see the cruelty the prison system tries to hide, and to think expansively about a world in which prisons no longer exist.

Ecclesial leadership must turn authentically to Jesus to find prophetic, transparent, inclusive, and creative ways forward.

The Supreme Court must hold American corporations accountable for their actions in perpetrating human-rights abuses abroad.

Pope Francis’s new book offers a vision for a politics rooted in solidarity.

An organized pursuit of justice is both Michael Feinberg’s work and his passion.