Encountering Christ brings with it the responsibility of reaching out to those on the peripheries, Catholic leaders urged their fellow Catholics. This service and need to bring with us the joy of the ...

Editor's Note: Archbishop José Gomez of Los Angeles delivered this July 3 keynote address at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ “Convocation of Catholic Leaders: The Joy of the Gospel in America ...

I have a stone on my private altar given to me by Alejandro. When his brother disappeared in Cuidad Juárez, Mexico, three years ago, Alejandro went back to the place where they said goodbye to each ...

The first Latin American and Jesuit pope was determined to lead a more welcoming, pastoral and merciful Church outward to a broken world. Pope Francis (1936–2025), who led the Catholic Church from ...

Pope Francis on Saturday told mayors that they must go to those on the margins of their communities in order to learn how to best serve the common good, including the needs of the poor, unemployed, ...

A pastor for the peripheries—a shepherd for the lost, the least, the vulnerable, and the oppressed. That’s how I believe my brother, Bishop Pablo Virgilio David, or “Ambo,” has always understood his ...

Two key concepts in the renewal of the Catholic Church that Pope Francis is undertaking are decentralization and peripheries. Both appear in the apostolic exhortation “The Joy of the Gospel,” the ...

Theologians Meghan Clark (far left) and Stan Chu Ilo (front center) meet with the women of Mujer Obrera in El Paso, Tex. (Photo by Dylan Corbett, Executive Director of the Hope Border Institute). In a ...

Peripheries, centers, and the construction of early modern American empires: an introduction / Amy Turner Bushnell and Jack P. Greene -- Gates, patterns, and peripheries: the field of frontier Latin ...

China’s paramount leader Xi Jinping frequently says that China is pursuing “peaceful development.” On a trip to France last year, he described his country as “peaceful, pleasant and civilized.” But ...