Over the long term, wealth inequality is an imbalance that threatens the common good.

The Torture Report; Forgetting Sandy Hook

This Holy Week, we pray for all those affected by the Boston Marathon bombing and remember that ours is the God of Good Friday, who understands suffering and "will help us move beyond the blood and the tears."

Voice of Conscience; George Shultz, Mr. Sunshine; Keystone State

Women in every social class are choosing to delay marriage. How should the church respond?

Why are some in Washington starstruck by austerity, a bad idea whose time has not come?

The new pope might consider the cause of Oscar Romero with renewed seriousness.

Talk About Steubenville; Catholic Opportunity; Iraq, the Lost War

Catholic Press Association award winner for Best Coverage of Immigration: "Beautiful scriptural based approach to looking at immigration through the concept of the biblical "stranger."

Additional archive analysis of the Vietnam War from America's editors