Solidarity at a Cost
Over this past week, WPI has run a series of articles and reflections focused on the current suffering of U.S. immigrants and the risks to those who are working to protect them. Central to all of these posts has been...
Category: Catholic Social Teaching
American Catholics Cannot Accept This Mass Deportation Campaign
Note from WPI: Given the importance of addressing the recent U.S. Immigration response, we have decided to dedicate this first week of March to highlighting the current situation in the U.S. and to discussing the Catholic response. We have chosen...
Racism in US Catholic Schools: The Weeds in Our Garden
Note: Some names have been altered to protect the individuals involved in this article. For Lila, the racism started in the third grade. After an older boy repeatedly made hurtful comments about the color of her skin, Lila began telling...
Winter Olympics: A Glimpse of Global Solidarity
Note: This article was originally published by The Association of U.S. Catholic Priests on February 23, 2026. It was a colorful scene watching the athletes of the 2026 Winter Olympics march in the opening ceremonies carrying the flags of the...
What Martin Luther King Jr. has to say to Bishop Robert Barron
I’ve been reflecting on how MLK confronted structures of sin within Christianity, and how he would respond to Catholics today. Specifically, how he would respond to Bishop Barron’s failure to be a voice of moral clarity during the ICE raids...
The Need for Care Becomes Divine
Earlier this week, Pope Leo was asked about the passing of “Deb’s Law” in Illinois. Signed into law earlier this month by Governor JB Pritzker, this law legalizes medically assisted killing in the pope’s home state. Leo said he was...
Integral Human Development: Catholic Social Teaching’s Vision of Human Flourishing
While reading Pope Leo’s recent apostolic exhortation, Dilexi te, I was struck by an oblique reference he makes in the first chapter. Quoting Pope Francis, Leo observes that “some economic rules have proved effective for growth, but not for integral...
“I Was Hungry” A Call to Action For US Catholics
On Friday, November 8, the United States Supreme Court halted a lower court’s ruling that the Trump Administration must fully fund SNAP. Feeding America’s chief marketing and communications officer, Monica Lopez Gonzalez, said that the current “situation is catastrophic” and...
The Ecclesial Vision of Dilexi Te
I’ve heard a lot of commentary in the past week about Pope Leo XIV’s Apostolic Exhortation, Dilexi Te. This isn’t surprising, Dilexi Te is Pope Leo’s first major teaching document, and there are many people, Catholics and non-Catholics alike, who are anxious to...
The Beauty of the Earth
Today those of us in the United States celebrate the feast day of St. Kateri Tekakwitha, who was the first Native American to be declared a saint and is the patroness of the environment and ecology (in Canada, her feast...
“Our presence made a difference”
I’m often lamenting clerics misusing and abusing their authority in order to feed their own egos, push their agendas, or win cultural or political power. But I’m really happy to share a story that’s the opposite.This is what the right...
Earth Day: An urgent call to protect God’s creation
Earth Day (April 22) is an excellent reminder for Catholics to reflect on Pope Francis’ famous environmental encyclical letter “Laudato Si’, on Care for Our Common Home”. Citing Francis of Assisi – patron saint of ecology – Pope Francis writes...
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