Only about 8 percent of teachers in Catholic schools are Hispanic, compared with 17 percent of students. Low salaries and a weak professional pipeline make it difficult to diversify the teaching staff.

Francis is visiting Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia to help mark their centennial of independence from czarist Russia.

The announcement that the United States will cap its intake of refugees at 30,000 was swiftly denounced by Catholic leaders.

Congress has authorized one-third of the estimated $120 billion some estimate Puerto Rico will require for recovery.

This economy is not working for human beings.

Even after revelations about sexual abuse in the church, 79 percent of U.S. Catholics—but only 53 percent of all Americans—hold a favorable view of Pope Francis, according to a Gallup poll.