Archbishop Wester: "Countless nonprofits and civic organizations work to fill food baskets, but some legislators want to take food out of another basket, the grocery basket, with their proposed food tax."

Accompaniment, unlike charity, can't be done from a distance.

In his homily for the feast, Pope Francis denounced the exclusion of so many people “from the train of life.”

New Yorkers can be forgiven if they believed homelessness were a problem consigned to the past.

The continent ends the year much as it began: in disarray, devoid of any vision for the future and united in hardly any sense at all.

La Repubblica also quotes Francis as saying, “We must knock down the walls that divide."