Federal spending on children fell to 1.9 percent of the U.S. gross domestic product in 2018.

“Plague: Untold Stories of AIDS and the Catholic Church,” an ambitious podcast created and hosted by America’s national correspondent, Michael J. O’Loughlin, premiers Dec. 1.

“The marginalization painfully experienced by millions of persons cannot go on for long," wrote Francis.

The Trump administration announced a proposed rule to allow faith-based adoption and foster care agencies to follow their deeply held religious beliefs and not place children with same-sex couples.

The current opioid crisis has strong parallels to drug addiction in Victorian England, writes Nathan Beacom, and the struggles of the Catholic poet Francis Thompson.

Healing teeth can be a first step in restoring hope and giving us a chance to tell a new story with our lives.