Archbishop Bernardito Auza called on the U.N. and its member states to develop policies and investments "that people can see and touch" to tackle social and spiritual poverty as well.

The free-enterprise system is compatible with caring for the least of us, writes an economist and convert to Catholicism.

It is clearly more difficult to raise children in a nurturing environment without housing security.

On any given Sunday, the pews of St. Michael's in Axtell, Kan., are filled with more than half the town's population.

Working for a just wage remains a human and moral imperative, Cardinal Seán O'Malley said.

Do not expect a return to the days when comity could be coaxed with a little (or a lot) of bourbon and branch.