Julie Bourbon

Washington - The Feb. 27 Catholic Day of Action for Dreamers began with prayer and ended with 42 arrests for civil disobedience inside a Senate office building across the street.

In a packed chapel on Georgetown's campus, Cardinal Joseph Tobin shared a stage with John Carr and two students brought to this country illegally as children. Tobin minced no words about immigration.

Washington -- Calling the future of the planet "an ethical problem," Mauricio López Oropeza, executive secretary of the Pan-Amazonian Ecclesial Network, made clear that the church's social teaching is very clear on the imperative to care for the earth.

WASHINGTON -- Immigration was a key theme of the first day of the Catholic Social Ministry Gathering, which brought together more than 500 Catholics who work in social justice ministries. The event runs from Saturday Feb. 4 through Tuesday, Feb. 6, and concludes with an advocacy visit to Capitol Hill.

Fr. Ladislas Orsy was feted Jan. 24 at the Georgetown University Law Center. His more than 60-year career includes serving at Vatican II and working on the new Code of Canon Law, adopted in 1983.

National Catholic Schools Week: "It's not about keeping schools open, it's about giving parents the choice to send their children to schools that meet their needs. It's not a backdoor way for the church to prop up Catholic schools."

At a time when more young people than ever before are leaving the church, a new report is attempting to understand why so many have "disaffiliated" from Catholicism.

Catholic and other faith groups are promoting the Conscience Protection Act of 2017 to protect the conscience rights of health care providers who refuse to offer abortion services on demand.

Washington – About two dozen people prayed Dec. 20 in a congressional office building with the archbishop of San Juan de Puerto Rico, who was in the nation’s capital seeking legislative assistance and international solidarity with the people of his island home.

Book Review: In this time and this season, as we remember the infant born in a cave, the one who would bring peace on earth, good will to all, we might look to Bethlehem and see that its future is our future.

The annual survey found few areas of agreement among American voters. "The story here is less about who loves their own party and more about who hates the other party."

Recent exhibits in the library have included a show of contemporary oil paintings of Mary and flowers that depicted her through nature, history, and spirituality; illustrations and engravings related to the Litany of Loreto; and Marian art of Asia.

Washington -- Interfaith leaders convened on Capitol Hill Thursday to call attention to the enormous harm the proposed Republican tax bill will cause to poor and middle-income Americans. 

A powerful panel of speakers addressed a capacity crowd at Georgetown University's Dahlgren Chapel Nov. 13 on the pernicious sin of racism and the church's role in both perpetuating and combating it.

As the open enrollment period for the Affordable Care Act moves into its second week, Catholic health entities across the country are doing a full-court press to educate and enroll consumers.

The first in a series of discussions drew several hundred people to Georgetown Nov. 2, as three speakers addressed the moral, human and policy questions surrounding nuclear arms and North Korea.

Advocates for comprehensive health care — Catholics among them — say Trump's executive orders didn't surprise them but have frustrated them; U.S. bishops warn against using health care as a bargaining chip.

Making Peace: Lual Mayen, 23, is from South Sudan and grew up in a camp for war refugees in Uganda; his mother helped him focus on his education, and now this college graduate is focusing his software engineering skills on developing video and other games that promote peace.

The No War 2017: War and the Environment conference that brought together antiwar, pro-environment movements for a weekend of presentations, workshops and fellowship.

At the Assisi Institute's conference, don't expect downward dogs or tree poses. Instead, Kriya Yoga is best understood as a practice of meditation in line with Catholic mysticism.