A July 13 report from the United Nations said almost 690 million people went hungry in 2019, an increase of 10 million from the previous year—figures arrived at before the pandemic began.

In recent weeks a majority of states have gradually opened up, but the number of confirmed cases of Covid-19 are now spiking around the country, sparking controversy about how to handle the pandemic.

Amid the national tumult over racial injustice, there are high-level calls for the schools to teach more about the church’s past links to slavery and segregation, and how Black Catholics persevered nonetheless.

After reciting the Angelus in St. Peter’s Square, the pope praised a cease-fire accord in Ukraine and asked young people not to leave the elderly “by themselves” during the pandemic.

This documentary can be considered one more piece of the recent American narrative pushing us continually to wake up to our past injustices.

Alyssa Nakken became the first woman to appear in uniform on the field during a major league baseball game when she coached first base in the late innings of an exhibition game between the San Francisco Giants and the Oakland Athletics.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan joined hundreds of worshipers Friday for the first Muslim prayers in 86 years inside Hagia Sophia.

In a letter published on the website of the Diocese of Malaga, Spain, the pope thanked a teen with an intellectual disability after the 15-year-old traveled more than 60 miles along the famed Camino de Santiago de Compostela.

“Counting the undocumented in the census and then denying them and the states in which they reside their rightful representation in Congress is counter to the Constitution and a grave injustice,” the statement said.

Surely God and grace are in the music that we consider more “secular.”