In his homily for the feast, Pope Francis denounced the exclusion of so many people “from the train of life.”

New Yorkers can be forgiven if they believed homelessness were a problem consigned to the past.

The continent ends the year much as it began: in disarray, devoid of any vision for the future and united in hardly any sense at all.

La Repubblica also quotes Francis as saying, “We must knock down the walls that divide."

“We must help to heal the world of its moral atrophy,” the pope said at the World Meeting of Popular Movements.

Under Proposition HHH, nearly $1.2 billion would go toward 10,000 “permanent supportive housing” units.