“We need to have a national debate on these things; it’s not a decision for the president to make in the dead of night.”

Pope Francis joined a chorus of humanitarian relief and human rights critics who urged the United States to do more to avoid noncombatant deaths.

Some of the tensions still troubling Liberian life have deep social and historical roots.

The United States dominates an annual global weapons export market that has topped $100 billion.

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.