Francis prayed for peace, and said that "without the fraternity that Jesus Christ has bestowed on us, our efforts for a more just world fall short."

John Bel Edwards is bringing “common sense and compassion” to the governor's office in Louisiana. Is the pro-life Democrat a model for how his party can win Catholic voters nationwide?

Confronted with a political candidate’s Islamophobic language, the author chose not to walk away or to pounce in anger, but to reach across a divide.

Is it conceit or coincidence that a saint who was conceived without sin is the patron of a country that believes the same about itself?

Respect is key to the process of dialogue with local and national officials, Bishop Tamayo told the Texas Catholic Herald.

No single person can be trusted to wield power; therefore, power must be shared among many and policed by a legal system of checks and balances.

Politicians must act to assist workers as technology continues to transform jobs across Europe, said a committee of the European Union bishops' commission.

Exit polls indicated that immigration was second only to health care in the minds of voters.

After the midterms, there are a variety of other issues on which compromise is still achievable and where “good politics” can still be practiced.

For almost 20 years Polish scholars have been at the cutting edge of Holocaust research. But a law proposed this year threatened to change all that.