Lenten fish fries are a staple for Catholics. But they also reflect the corporal work of mercy of feeding the hungry. In a suburb north of Houston, Chris and Michelle Nelli lead their four children in ...

In a previous column for America, I noted that the Beatitudes are about the needed internal growth of the Christian disciple to recognize the plight of the poor in spirit. Toward that end, the ...

(RNS) — At the end of February, the US State Department canceled some 10,000 programs that fed, sheltered and cared for people around the world. (RNS) — President Donald Trump and his DOGE hitman, ...

Students learn about the corporal and spiritual works of mercy academically and also through hands-on experiences with their classmates and teachers in the broader community. Students at St. Joseph ...

In a talk in Boston in 1979, Marie Augusta Neal, S.N.D.deN., said that the whole of Catholic social teaching can be summed up in a quote from St. John the Baptist: “Whoever has two tunics should share ...

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis on Thursday proposed that caring for the environment be added to the traditional seven works of mercy that Christians are called to perform, taking his green agenda to a ...

President Donald Trump and his DOGE hitman, Elon Musk, are defunding and destroying programs that support and provide what Christians have traditionally called the seven "corporal works of mercy" (as ...