The pope’s message poses a sharp challenge to a movement known more for personal conversion and evangelization than practical mercy.

A conversation with The Atlantic’s Emma Green.

How to expand health coverage while containing costs is one of the great unanswered questions in American politics.

We can no longer tolerate the serious problems that result from a broken and fragmented health care financing system.

In “Laudato Si’,” Pope Francis called drinkable water a human right. But as Nathan Beacom writes, our methods of farming and raising livestock are degrading our soil and polluting our waterways.

For the Catholic community, the penetrating vision of the Second Vatican Council identifies a clear pathway of public engagement and conscience formation.

The U.S. Department of Justice claims that the state of California's coronavirus opening plan is hampering the rights of people to resume religious services.

Bishops' conferences from Brazil, Indonesia and Ireland are announcing their intent to divest from fossil fuel companies, in keeping with the spirit of Pope Francis' Laudato Si' encyclical, which was released five years ago.

The damage from sexual abuse cannot be treated by simply punishing offenders, writes the psychologist and former military chaplain Edwin T. Collins. But the church can help survivors by adapting post traumatic stress disorder models.

In an exclusive interview conducted over email with America, Archbishop Azevedo criticized Brazilian politicians “in different stances of power” who have “minimized the effects of the pandemic.”