Indonesia has struggled for years to combat illegal logging that destroys the tropical forest habitat of unique animal species and deprives the government of significant revenue.

Holding leaders accountable for negligence is "critical to the whole picture," said a commission member.

It's important to consider the benefits of organized religion, the study said, when the U.S. seems to increasingly step closer to a more secularized society.

"We must promote the common good everywhere, so that people in all nations can live a life where their human dignity is protected."

Deconstructionists, those intellectuals who make it their job to ask critical questions about our long-cherished collective stories, like to ask, among other things, who or what cause is best served by a given narrative. They might ask, for example, whose interests are served by a story that tells o

An Open InvitationSuperintendents and the National Catholic Educational Association respond to “Reinventing Catholic Schools,” by Charles Zech (8/29).Charles Zech fails to mention the incredible work being done in Catholic schools across the country today. As the superintendents of Catho

Guantánamo Diary belongs in a canon of great social justice memoirs not only for the unique context in which the story was written but also for its power and eloquence.

“Ordinary moments make the life”—not the catastrophe that we humans experience, or imagine we will one day experience.

The central insight of David Walsh’s book is that “the person is transcendence."

My faith is rooted in the tradition of my family, a line of Irish Catholics.

AsiaNews, the Rome-based missionary news agency, reported on Sept. 8 that Chinese authorities had taken Coadjutor Bishop Peter Shao Zhumin of Wenzhou, China, out of the diocese to northwest China “on a trip.” Local faithful said it was to prevent him from taking possession of the diocese

“We hope to highlight the importance of prayer as a reasonable and efficacious response to the violence that has touched too many communities in our nation.”

All priests are in service to the church. The church, in turn, is in service to all humanity.

Have we become tone deaf to the concept of sacrifice and suffering?

Once over money and territory, violence in the country has taken a more destructive turn.

Sister Sandy Sherman thought she would follow the traditional route of women religious, joining the ranks of the Catholic teachers who had inspired her.“I thought I would enter and I would teach school my whole life and I would wear a habit,” said Sherman, who joined the Order of Saint U

There are radiant truths within these Catholic documents. And then, it seems, the darker shroud of Rome is thrown down and ruins it all.

Chicago’s long, hot summer of shootings came to an end over the three-day Labor Day weekend, with 65 people shot, 13 fatally, as homicides climbed toward 500 for the year. August was already on record as the city’s deadliest month in more than two decades.The wounded included a youn

Large-scale mining and extractive operations are failing to deliver economic benefits while causing environmental damage and human suffering throughout Latin America.