Puerto Rico was home to widespread poverty and on the verge of bankruptcy. And that was before Hurricane Maria.

U.S. agriculture is facing a silent crisis.

As Pope Francis writes in “Laudato Si’,” we face “one complex crisis which is both social and environmental.”

The United States is thwarting the advancement of millions of its citizens, a UN rapporteur says.

The change was in “no way” a response to the C.C.H.D.’s persistent online critics, an archdiocesan official says.

This week, your faithful hosts are in the hot seat.