A conversation with Father Larry Snyder

How people value space exploration may just depend on someone's particular faith.

More than 85,000 people still live in dozens of tent camps in expansive earthquake zone.

The $1.1 trillion federal spending bill approved by the House of Representatives Dec. 11 and pending in the Senate avoided a repeat of last year's government shutdown and largely keeps in place social services spending, especially programs benefiting low-income families.Beyond the current fiscal

72 of 142 men in detention have been cleared for release but remain mired in legal limbo.

Faith community looks at money, power and public policy

Expanded airstrikes on Islamic State positions in Syria serve as little more than a recruiting tool for the extremist group and place more innocent people in danger, the leadership of Pax Christi International said. The three top leaders of the Catholic peace organization also called upon the world,

Jesuit keeps love of creation and justice for the poor foremost in life.

Jesuit Brother Guy Consolmagno, the new president of the Vatican Observatory Foundation, has no doubt that life exists elsewhere in the universe and that when humanity discovers it, the news will come as no big surprise. He suggested that the likely discovery—whether next month or a millennium

Moral questions are at the heart of the push for a higher federal minimum wage.