In Latin America, women hold only one-third of top-level jobs.

The U.S. ambassador to the Vatican, Miguel H. Díaz, said on Oct. 5 that human migration should be accepted as both a Christian and a political duty.

Almost 44 million Americans now live below the poverty line, and 21 percent of all U.S. children are growing up poor.

The last remaining Catholic adoption agency in England has filed an appeal against a decision forbidding it to turn away same-sex couples.

If there are “large forces are at work against the poor,” so, too, there are good forces working for them.

International campaigners see Quebec as a vulnerable beachhead for legalizing euthanasia in Canada.