On innkeepers, shepherds and gift bearersA reflection by Mike Poulin of the Mercy Justice TeamI am recently returned from a five-day delegation to Honduras. Sponsored by the SHARE Foundation, we spent our time visiting Mercy and other ministries in and around San Pedro Sula...

As a community, a city, and a state, we are shattered. An assailant took the lives of two students at Brown University and injured nine others. This is the third month in a row this country has experienced a mass shooting and the 75th shooting on a school campus this year...

It is up to each country to seek “strategies and resources in order to guarantee each person’s fundamental right to basic and decent healthcare” (Message for the 31st World Day of the Sick). Health is not a luxury! A world that discards the sick, that does not assist those...

Please join our partners at Creation Justice Ministries in opposing a Trump Administration plan for up to 34 auctions of federal waters for oil and gas drilling through 2031. You may add your name to a petition that will be delivered as part of a mandated public...

Mindful spending on Fasting FridayThe Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) has called member congregations to participate in another 100 Days of Prayer, Fasting, and Advocacy. This initiative continues the effort of the first LCWR 100 Days, to unite women...

We have to continue to remind ourselves of the potential that humanity has to overcome the violence and the hatred that is just dividing us more and more. We live in times when polarization seems to be one of the words of the day, but it’s not helping anybody.—Pope Leo...

When Catherine McAuley founded the Sisters of Mercy in 1831, the challenges in her native Ireland would have seemed, to many, insurmountable: rampant poverty, lack of access to education and clean water, frequent outbreaks of cholera and typhus. Instead of allowing herself...

We oppose the indiscriminate mass deportation of people. We pray for an end to dehumanizing rhetoric and violence.—USCCB Special Message on immigration, 12 November 2025Encourage your diocese to live into USCCB’s immigration statementLast Wednesday, November 12, the United...

We call on world leaders to act urgently and courageously for an ambitious Paris Agreement implementation that protects God’s creation and people. As all of us are impacted, so must we all be responsible for addressing this global challenge.— U.S. Conference of Catholic...