We may not treat those who live on a park bench and Park Avenue as equals, but the Constitution reminds us that we should.

Soup lines are longer, more people depend on charities to get by, and more live on the streets or have joined the burgeoning populations of Argentina’s impoverished villas.

I was standing in the dumpster looking for food when I was overwhelmed by the thought that I am feeding my family garbage.

Whether the site will be developed into luxury apartments or low-income housing remains the subject of contentious debate.

"We Christians cannot stand with arms folded in indifference" or thrown up in the air in helpless resignation, the pope said in his homily Nov. 18, the World Day of the Poor.

Our faith tells us that Christ chose to suffer on our behalf and that when we choose to do the same, in the service of others, we imitate Jesus in our own lives.