Archbishop Lori Discusses Presidential Debates, Polls and the Beatitudes

The chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Ad Hoc Committee for Religious Liberty talks about the spiritual and political challenges of the current election cycle.

Catholic Leaders in the U.K. Mount Opposition to Same-Sex 'Marriage'

Bishop Mark Davies of Shrewsbury decries the 'seismic shift in the foundations' of British society.

Cardinal Responds to U.N.'s Criticism of Africa's Social Policies

On the 30th Anniversary of ‘On Human Work’

Following in the footsteps of Pope Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum, John Paul II’s gave us incisive teaching on how labor can bring us closer to God.

Judge Rules Against Illinois Catholic Charities

Ruling: State has the right to stop contracting with the agencies on foster care and adoption placement. New civil-unions law sparked the lawsuit from Catholic Charities, which wanted to retain the right to accept state contracts while placing children with families according to Catholic tenets.

The Vision of E.F. Schumacher

Church social doctrine played a major role in the development of Small Is Beautiful. The Register takes a look at the work and the author 100 years after his birth.

Dealing With Debt — and Stewardship

Maureen Dowd & Andrew Cuomo: Scribe & Patron Saint of 'Personal Conscience'

A Register news analysis

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Discover Your Charism, Presbyterian Convert, Canadian Ordinariate Coming, and much more!

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Rerum Novarum, Universae Ecclesiae, Canadian Ordinariate, St. Pancras, St. Leopold, and much more!

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