Several legislative challenges to crucial domestic and international anti-poverty programs were turned back in 2011.

A persistent drought is forcing farmers to abandon traditional rain-reliant practices.

For decades the U.S. bishops have supported a decent minimum wage for U.S. workers in keeping with church teaching on a just wage.

In recent years progress has been made on improving the affordability of Catholic schools by school voucher programs and tuition tax credits.

Portesting 10 years of detentions at at the military-run prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba

Women's religious orders from Indiana and Michigan are working to stop sex trafficking at this year's Super Bowl.