There have been warning signs for decades; now South Africa’s second-biggest city is racing to prevent a drought from throttling the economy and causing social unrest.

“The degradation of the environment...cannot be separated from the moral degradation of our communities.”

Society cannot look the other way and allow a culture that demeans the dignity of women to persist, Pope Francis said.

It's near this forlorn corner of the Amazon that Pope Francis will visit Friday amid what has been called a modern-day gold rush of illegal miners threatening the world's largest rainforest.

As one delves deeper and deeper into the text, one begins to sense that perhaps the two species are not as different as we might think.

Speaking on the 100th anniversary of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson's proposed League of Nations, Francis said today's leaders can learn two lessons from the ashes of World War I.