The government "has lost its moral legitimacy" and new polls are needed, the South African Council of Churches said.

People cannot sit back and be indifferent or unresponsive to growing poverty in the world as a privileged minority accumulates "ostentatious wealth," Pope Francis said.

Philanthropy should be regarded as a subdomain of democracy, not an exception to it.

Policies that involve criminalizing and detaining child migrants "are an insult to human dignity," the Vatican observer to U.N. said.

Diana Henriques wrote the book on Madoff. She says Donald Trump is no con man.