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Pope Francis and our faith-driven responsibility for the common good

As wildfires continue to blaze in northern Alberta, churches of all denominations across Canada have been offering prayers and helping relief efforts. More than 100,000 residents of Fort McMurray have fled the inferno—most have lost their homes completely. Bishop Paul Terrio, bishop of St. Pau

An accord seems possible before the year’s end.

“The Joy of Love experienced by families is also the joy of the Church.” So begins Pope Francis’ long-awaited apostolic exhortation “The Joy of Love” (“Amoris Laetitia”). The statement draws on the conclusions of the Synod of Bishops, which ga

Indigenous communities in parts of North America are suffering.

This is grim news all around at a grim time for Chicago.

Bishop Donal McKeown of Derry told hundreds of mourners at the funeral of Sister Clare Crockett, killed in Ecuador during an earthquake on April 17, that “a life given in loving sacrifice is never wasted.” • Twenty-three new Swiss Guard recruits pledged during a ceremony on May 6 to

I’m tempted to call the woman, say I did not see her car accident,but will listen to her version, find out why she needs a witness.Three telephone poles, three hand-scrawled signsplead for someone who saw the silver Lexus hit her Honda.Her signs remain a week. I imagine she vents to family, fr

Something developed countries take for granted—electricity—could go a long way to stem violence often attributed to religion, said Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah of Sokoto, Nigeria, in the country’s northwest. Only major cities, like state capitals, have reliable electricity, the bish

It is true that “what the eye does not see, the heart does not feel.”

On April 8, the world witnessed a great leap forward for human spaceflight.

"Ambient air pollution...is the greatest environmental risk to health—causing more than 3 million premature deaths worldwide ever year,"

Rousseff's enraged backers called the move a coup d'etat and threatened wide-scale protests and strikes.

Pope Francis agreed a women's diaconate should be given more careful consideration, telling hundreds of nuns from around the world that he himself always wondered about the role of deaconesses in the early church.

“It’s impossible to launder money at the I.O.R.” today, said the bank’s president.

An average of 66,000 people were displaced every day in 2015.

Over the last year, Yemen’s brutal war has led to the killing of over 3,000 civilians and meant the destruction of considerable civilian property. Various armed groups, most notably the Houthis and other Islamist forces, have taken over cities and towns in this overwhelmingly Mu

"An abrupt closure of the two camps would mean a humanitarian catastrophe for the region..."

The leaders of the world's communities of Catholic women religious were warned against accepting an "entitlement creep" that numbs them from confronting poverty and environmental destruction.At the opening session of a triennial assembly of the International Union of Superiors General