Catholic Community Services of Southern Arizona moved the Casa Alitas shelter for asylum seekers to the monastery in January. Their previous location in Tucson was not big enough to accommodate the influx of asylum seekers.

A compromise to protect Dreamers and T.P.S. recipients “must not be achieved at the expense of other immigrant children and families,” said Bishop Mario Eduardo Dorsonville-Rodríguez in testimony before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee.

There is a growing awareness about solitary confinement, a practice affecting 60,000 to 100,000 people in U.S. prisons.

If all the church’s worship should be thought of as a journey, Lent involves achieving platinum frequent flyer status.

With the beginning of Lent, we are all called to focus on one of the spiritual aspects of the sex abuse crisis that underpins all the others: namely, the tragic failure to see.

Reflections on the three pillars of Lent: prayer, fasting and almsgiving

Fasting always sounds like a brilliant idea before the consequences hit home. Having lost some control over my bowel movements, I felt vulnerable and fragile. I was afraid. Was it really worth it? Would I make it the full 40 days?

As political unrest increases in Venezuela, hundreds of soldiers and police officers are deserting and seeking shelter in neighboring Colombia.

Thomas J. Rodi asked for prayers for "those who lost their lives and their loved ones as well as those who have lost homes and businesses."

On a snowy Saturday in Flatbush, the snowy-haired independent senator from Vermont kicked off his second bid for president.