Love Your Neighbor

by Emily Dagostino Six days a week, Martin Johnson starts his morning at 3 a.m. at St. Mary’s Soup Kitchen in Memphis, Tennessee, with prep work on soup and coffee. By midmorning, the line to the kitchen is snaking out the door of the…

BY DANIEL P. SMITH Where sin increased, grace overflowed all the more. (Romans 5:20) Just before 8 p.m. on a wintry Wednesday in Chicago, three words pouring from a police radio seize the attention of Fr. Dan Brandt: infant, unattended,…

by Lori Hadacek Chaplin In May 2018, desiring to help the less fortunate, Fr. Marko Djonovic approached homeless men and women and offered them an hourly wage and lunch to clean up Detroit parks. He felt that exchanging work for pay —…

by Melanie Rigney They gathered on March 4, 1920, in Washington, D.C., 122 voting delegates who represented all but one diocese in the country along with 57 women’s societies. Together, they formed the National Council of Catholic Women…

by Fr. Kyle Schnippel In March 2014, I was transferred from the vocation office for the Archdiocese of Cincinnati and into a yet-to-be named parish, where the course of my priesthood would be changed in a way I never thought possible.…

BY KEVIN T. DI CAMILLO Perhaps one of the biggest detriments to young men entering the monastic life is the lifelong commitment — that, plus the extremely long time it takes to become a monk. And, of course, the vows of poverty, chastity,…

Claire Babineaux-Fontenot’s goal is to eliminate hunger in America. The Louisiana native is a devout Catholic who brings her faith to her work as CEO of Feeding America, the largest hunger-relief organization in the United States. Catholic…

And Then There Were None (ATTWN) — founded by Abby Johnson, a former director of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Bryan, Texas — is providing those who work for abortion clinics with the opportunity to devote their careers to life.  Since the…

Women who are homeless and pregnant find safe haven and the opportunity to transform their lives at LifeHouse Crisis Maternity Home in Springfield, Missouri. Operated out of a former Carmelite monastery by Catholic Charities of Southern…

Shortly after his election, Pope Francis explained why he took the name “Francis” as his papal name after St. Francis Assisi. “How I would like a Church that is poor and for the poor,” he said. The notion that the Church shouldn’t just help…