October 10, 2026

Saturday of the Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time

Catholic Social Teaching

Requiem Mass recalls homeless San Franciscans who died on the streets

Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone brought together San Francisco's faith, civic and social service communities at St. Mary's Cathedral...

Church’s social teaching needed to combat greed, injustice, pope says

With many people around the world facing exclusion and inequality, the social teaching of the Catholic Church can...

Catholic social teaching gives Gospel concrete form, pope says

Pope Francis said he knows "it often annoys people" when he promotes Catholic teaching on social issues like...

Job creation strengthens dignity in a way subsidies can’t, pope says

While government subsidies are necessary sometimes to help a family survive, job creation is what will help them...

Pope says Vatican II shaped his theology, including in social teaching

Pope Francis said the Second Vatican Council so shaped his theological and pastoral vision that perhaps he has...

Labor Day is reminder of dignity of workers, Cardinal Gregory says

"We are still too quick to judge a book by its cover," Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory of Washington...

Cardinal Czerny calls on bishops to expand pastoral ministry to migrants

A Vatican official asked a group of bishops gathered at Mundelein Seminary June 2 to think of migrants,...

European, U.S. bishops ask governments work together for sustainable world

Ahead of a transatlantic summit, the heads of the European Union bishops' commission and the U.S. bishops' conference...

Catholic groups work to feed Brazilians affected by job loss, COVID-19

As unemployment increases and COVID-19 infections surge in the country, Catholic entities in Brazil are ramping up efforts...

Advocates, editorials call on Biden to end federal death penalty

The death penalty has been getting attention across the country this year with legislation introduced or voted on...