Pope Leo XIV warned participants at a European conference on peacebuilding that the “spread of relativism” and reducing truth to a mere opinion undermine the moral foundations needed to build a lasting peace.

As the United States and, indeed, the world are being shaken by seismic shifts in American domestic politics and U.S. foreign policy, we find ourselves asking how to bring our faith to bear in a public square increasingly hostile to its teachings.

Leaders of several pro-life organizations who spoke with OSV News at the 53rd annual March for Life in Washington Jan. 23 said the Trump administration still has work to do when it comes to their cause.

Mark Dushel has been serving as the first director of Ignatian Mission and Formation for three city institutions at once: Cristo Rey Jesuit High School, the Loyola School (for preschool through elementary school) and St. Ignatius Loyola Academy (for middle schoolers). The collaborative role was created to strengthen Jesuit identity across the full spectrum of childhood and adolescent education. 

Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin of Newark, New Jersey, joined several religious leaders for a Jan. 25 “National Faith Call to Action,” organized and hosted online by Faith in Action, a global, nonpartisan, faith-based network that counts 1,000 congregations in the U.S., as well as in Haiti, Central America, Africa and Eastern Europe.