In a Middle East torn apart by conflict, fighters are increasingly using food as a weapon. Millions of people across countries like Syria, Yemen and Iraq are gripped by hunger, struggling to survive with little help from the outside world. Children suffer from malnutrition; their parents often have

In short, they engage marriage as a holiness project.

Long before Pope Francis spoke of a poor church for the poor and of taking the church to the peripheries, Bishop Samuel Ruiz García of San Cristóbal de Las Casas built such a church in Mexico’s southern Chiapas state. Inspired by the teachings of the Second Vatican Council and gatherings of

February, the sophomore slump of the winter months. The snow is old. It’s bleak, it’s cold. And we just don’t care.

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The valley is a stopping point for many immigrant families before they make the last leap across the river in search of freedom and safety and comfort.

The effects of historical and structural racism must be taken into account

Every year around Easter, a flurry of books, articles and documentaries are released claiming to reveal the long-lost “truth” about the Gospels.

New scandals call in to question the state of South Africa's democracy 20 years after Mandela.

In an exclusive interview on China, the pope said, "the Western world, the Eastern world and China all have the capacity to maintain the balance of peace and the strength to do so."

But Romney coalition may not be so easy to reassemble.

"Our big hope is that people see that caring for the climate, caring for the earth is a moral obligation," said Sister Joy Peterson. "It's not political, even though we need to influence politicians, but it's an issue so important to the future of all creation. We also want to stimulate further response to the encyclical reminding people of that message that earth is our common home."

Health officials have urged women to postpone their pregnancies for two years.

Boats arrive on Europe's shores daily, or sink on the way—like the one that capsized off Turkey's coast on Saturday, killing at least 37 people including babies and other young children. Images from the latest tragedy, including the bodies of children, failed to generate the same level of shock.

The U.N. agency took the rare step despite a lack of definitive evidence proving the mosquito-borne virus is causing a surge in babies born with brain defects and abnormally small heads in Brazil and following a 2013-14 outbreak in French Polynesia.

How did we get to a place where three leading candidates are widely seen as untrustworthy, narcissistic or insufferable?

'The Club' is the story of spiritual darkness, clouded minds, of sunset in miserable lives, of violence and piety.

"The destiny of that holiness which God gives to his children, gives to the Church, comes through the humiliation of his Son."

There must be someone pulling the strings, right?

A handful of colleges have advanced questionable claims that respecting "Rerum Novarum" would obstruct their religious mission.