Credit cards make it easy to ignore the reality of how much things cost and how little money most people actually have. This is no accident.

In the United States, there is almost nowhere that is not simultaneously very rich and very poor.

An an important anniversary of Pope Leo XIII's famous encyclical on workers' rights, a look at how 'Rerum Novarum' applies to the vagaries of our new economy.

A more welcoming society for babies, children and families must work on many levels. Catholics should be leading that charge.

While the overall child poverty rate may be historically low after a recovery from the pandemic, there are more specific measures of economic vulnerability for children that are still alarming.

Journalism gets attention when it breaks big stories about institutions like Enron and the Catholic Church. But they can only do that work if they are consistently read — and broadly trusted.