For more than 20 years, efforts to pass a far-reaching immigration reform have fallen apart.

Violence against women in India has been a problem for centuries, but the news of the gang rapes of several young women have provoked shame, outrage and now perhaps action. The Women’s Commission of the Archdiocese of Bombay (Mumbai) is one of the leading lights in this fight with its new camp

Globally there are between 100,000 and 250,000 children who are victims of sex trafficking.

Visiting a Catholic grade school in Philadelphia on Jan. 18, Pennsylvania’s Gov. Tom Corbett lauded a new educational model for Catholic schools in the city. Independence Mission Schools is a management organization for 16 independent Catholic elementary schools located in mostly poor city nei

An influential U.N. committee charges that the windows violate children’s rights.

Social media need to promote more kindness than bluster and division, the pope said.