Describing the vocation crisis as an “enormous problem,” Pope Francis suggested he sympathizes with Catholics who come to Mass only to discover that there is no priest available to celebrate the Eucharist.

Throwing something of a damper on the voucher enthusiasm is a string of recent studies that have cast doubt on the impact at the individual level of choice experiments.

As civil strife threatens greater disorder, a famine looms in South Sudan; Pope Francis urges intervention.

The Jesuits invite people of good will and members of Congress to call on the administration to reverse its decision the Dakota access pipeline.

Despite simplistic language that depicts a flood of undocumented migrants crossing the U.S. southern border, migration from Mexico has slowed considerably in recent years and even reversed.

'The Assassination of a Saint' begins like a crime thriller, complete with a criminal manhunt.

Philip A. Lacovara noticed some similarities to his epic experience more than 43 years ago during Watergate’s infamous Saturday Night Massacre

"Allowing the plunder and destruction of God's wondrous creation to support the greed of a few is morally, spiritually and ethically wrong."

The proposed law will end the "annual battle" over Hyde and related measures and "takes out of Obamacare the facilitation and funding of abortion."

Sean Callahan describes the humanitarian relief mission of CRS with Iraqi Christian and Yazidi refugees in Iraq's Kurdistan region.